But, once overthrown, he appears in all his ugliness: "a black cat, larger than a dog, his huge eyes emitting flame, his tongue long, large, and bloody, his tail twisted and raised in the air, and his whole body disgusting to the last degree." He is the one thing that is hated, and the only preoccupation.

People fear him, yet ridicule him.

One is not even honest with him.

In reality, notwithstanding the ferocious appearance of his furnaces, he is the eternal dupe.

All the treaties he makes are forced from him by violence or cunning.