These objects, it seemed to me, were quintessentially the kind that I and my liberal left friends in London had always seen as summing up something deplorable about the French aristocracy in the 18th century.
Estos objetos, me parecía, eran la quintaesencia de lo que mis amigos liberales de izquierda en Londres siempre habían visto como un resumen de algo deplorable de la aristocracia francesa del siglo XVIII.