在法国贵族中,科学仍然非常流行,上流社会的人都会涌去观看演示活动,例如尼古拉斯·莱梅里展示的一座正在喷发的火山。
Science was also enormously popular among the French nobility, and fashionable society flocked to demonstrations such as Nicolas Lemery's display representing an erupting volcano.
我发现自己在一个大的房子里,在哪里人们正围着一张小的桌子吃着午餐或是晚餐,正如我所被告知的风俗一样,在聚会上的都是贵族与上流社会人士。
I found myself in a large room, where people were sitting at lunch or supper around small tables, as is the custom, I am told, at parties in the houses of our nobility and gentry.
这些年来,它已成为皇家,贵族,大使,商界巨子和上流社会人士的居所。
Through the years, it has served as home to exiled Royals, aristocrats, Ambassadors, business tycoons and high society.
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