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.
Tipikusan olyannak tűntek ezek a tárgyak, mint amilyenekben én és a  Londonban élő balliberális barátaim mindig is a 18. századi francia arisztokrácia szörnyűségét láttuk.