当时法国的上流社会,上至路易十六下至各沙龙中那些生来就会恭顺地巴结名流权势的女士们都向这位老人敞开了谨慎戒备的大门。

• The great world, from Louis XVI down to the most humbly endowed of lionhunting ladies of the salons, opened its jealously guarded portals to the old man.