Quelle funeste étourderie ! venir habiter la cour d’un prince absolu ! un tyran qui connaît toutes ses victimes ! chacun de leurs regards lui semble une bravade pour son pouvoir.
What a lamentable piece of stupidity to come and live at the court of an Absolute Prince! A tyrant who knows all his victims; every look they give him he interprets as a defiance of his power.