I, a poor girl, a peasant lass, an orphan, a stranger, despised… a servant, in short… to enter a house, a manor, a palace, and turn it upside down, from attic to cellar!… All the men, young and old, at my feet, dancing to my tune, making them do as I please!… To be the servant before the mistresses, and the mistress before the masters! Well, it’s no small...