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.
これらのオブジェは 私や ロンドンにいる リベラル左派の友人達にとって 18世紀 フランス貴族の みじめさそのものを 体現しているように 見えたのです