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Calonne was the third Finance Minister to fall from grace
加隆是第三个因为试图
after trying to make the rich pay more tax.
让富人们交税而失宠的财政部长
And the third that Louis had supported only to sack.
路易支持的这第三个财长也只能被解雇
Trapped between economic disaster
深陷于在经济浩劫
and the implacable opponents of change all around him,
和他周围那些无情反抗改革的人中
the king couldn't cope any more.
国王再也承受不了这种压力
He suffered a mental breakdown.
他精神崩溃了
Stumbling around his palace,
在他的宫殿里跌跌撞撞
rambling about the visions that tormented him.
不停抱怨着折磨着他的幻觉
Just as his grandfather, Louis XV,
就像他那有忧郁症和抑郁的
was subject to melancholia and depression,
祖父路易十五一样
Louis XVI seems to enter into a period
路易十六似乎也踏入了
of really quite deep depression.
一段极其消沉的时期
The failure of the Assembly of Notables
显贵会议上的失败
seems to have affected Louis XVI very badly.
似乎严重地影响了路易十六
He's unable to manage the courts
他没办法再作为国王
and to manage the political
去管理朝廷
situation in a way that he has to do as a king,
没办法处理朝政
because he is at the pinnacle of a system which is itself in crisis.
因他本身即处于危机系统的顶端
