Being childishly blunt and not knowing any better doesn't help any - and if Elodie is rude enough, she can start a civil war, either by upset nobles or upset peasants.
In 1937 (during the Spanish Civil War), he and Goebbels had decided to play a friendly trick on Ernst Hanfstaengl, a high-ranking Nazi, in order to get back at him for rude comments he'd made about German soldiers.