More than once the king had been humiliated by the cardinal, whose police, without having yet attained the perfection of the modern police, were excellent, being better informed than himself, even upon what was going on in his own household.
Plus d'une fois le roi avait été humilié que le cardinal, dont la police, sans avoir atteint encore la perfection de la police moderne, était excellente, fût mieux instruit que lui-même de ce qui se passait dans son propre ménage.