Excellent analogy. These are the same prisses who tut tutted their way through Louis XIV’s court and wound up losing their heads at the hands of an angry mob at the guillotine. May they suffer a similar fate.
It took a couple of generations for the French court to get its comeuppance.
It was a century and two reigns between Louis XIV and Louis XVI.
To a degree the court of Louis XVI was less crassly snobby than that of a century earlier, when it was very new and extremely extreme.
The ways of European courts of the 17th-18th century, any of them, are strange, alien, but yet in some ways very familiar.