Hermès

1165.836 - 1194.116 David Rosenthal

Which, you know, again, as Paris is modernizing, as you can now buy your way into status, for the first time in Paris, you can be seen riding in addition to carriages. And... the ideal of what it is to be a noble person or a noble person of status has changed. It's no longer just, oh, I'm a leisurely courtier. It's like, no, I'm Baron Osmond. I am doing things for the state, for the country.