'You see what these court nobles are worth who claim to have such power!' the abbe de Frilair would say to his intimates; 'M. de La Mole has not sent so much as a wretched Cross to his agent at Besancon, and is going to allow him to be deprived of his post without a murmur.
Voyez ce que c’est que cette noblesse de cour qui se prétend si puissante! disait à ses intimes l’abbé de Frilair. M. de La Mole n’a pas seulement envoyé une misérable croix à son agent à Besançon, et va le laisser platement destituer.