help with a tale of two cities!?

Question

okay so what does monseigneur could swallow a great many thigs with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly swallowing france mean in the 7th chapter of the 2nd book

Answer 1

Monseigneur is a representative of the French aristocracy. You will also know him by another name, the marquis de Evremonde. He is everything the French revolution will try to destroy.
You should notice the heavy handed satire here. Dickens too is put off by him; hence this cynical prose.
The word SWALLOW here is to be taken both literally and figuratively.
Literally Monseigneur eats a lot, in fact, seems to require others to help him swallow chocolate.
And figuratively he is also swallowing France. In other words, the piggishness of the aristocracy has so much contributed to keeping the lower classes poor, that he is destroying France.
The "sullen minds" are those who are unhappy about the French aristocracy.

Answer 2

Monseigneur, one of the great lords in power at the Court, held his fortnightly reception in his grand hotel in Paris. Monseigneur was in his inner room, his sanctuary of sanctuaries, the Holiest of Holiests to the crowd of worshippers in the suite of rooms without. Monseigneur was about to take his chocolate. Monseigneur could swallow a great many things with ease, and was by some few sullen minds supposed to be rather rapidly swallowing France; but, his morning's chocolate could not so much as get into the throat of Monseigneur, without the aid of four strong men besides the Cook.

Yes. It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and theChief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips. One lacquey carried the chocolate-pot into the sacred presence; a second, milled
and frothed the chocolate with the little instrument he bore for that function; a third, presented the favoured napkin; a fourth (he of the two gold watches),poured the chocolate out. It was impossible for Monseigneur to dispense with one of these attendants on the chocolate and hold his high place under
the admiring Heavens. Deep would have been the blot upon his escutcheon if his chocolate had been ignobly waited on by only hree men; he must have died of two.

Note: The setting of the story moves back to Paris, where a reception at the Parisian suite of a French Lord (the Monseigneur), showcases the excesses and superficiality of the French aristocracy. Notice the details Dickens includes to show how materialistic and immoral the French upper class has become. How does the incident involving the Marquis and the small child illustrate the arrogance of the aristocracy and their complete disregard for the common people?

Answer 3

He eats a lot (all of France.) Remember this is at the time when there are many poor people in France...