If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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And, so, Louis XIV, who liked to call himself the Sun God, a modest megalomaniac, he sends out officials into the provinces to enforce his will, and these dudes are called intendants--but that doesn't matter, you don't have to remember that.

因此,路易十四,自称为太阳王,一个外表谦虚实则嚣张自大的人,他派一些官员去各省强化他的意志,这些人被称作是监督官,这个不是重点,你们不用记这个

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