Jean de la Bruyere Palace Quotations

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]