english: 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.
non_english: Ovi predmeti su, kako mi se činilo, suštinski bili od one vrste koju smo ja i moji liberalni prijatelji u Londonu uvek videli kao simbol nečeg skandaloznog u vezi sa francuskom aristokratijom 18. veka.