The refuse of the court is received in a fashionable assembly, where he defeats the magistrate, even when the latter is wearing his cravate and his grey suit, as well as the bourgeois wearing a sword, he sweeps them away and becomes master of the place: he is listened to and loved; one can hardly resist for a moment a gold-embroidered scarf or a white feather, a man who speaks to the King and sees the ministers. He makes men and women jealous: one admires him, he inspires envy: four miles away from the city, at Versailles, he inspires pity.