“Why do these guys insist on holding on to power when they could live out their days in some anonymous villa in the South of France?”Because psychopaths are incapable of imagining that the peasants might revolt.
There’s also a story from Zen Buddhism in which a master smacks a disciple apparently for no reason. When the disciple objects, the master says that the disciple is about to receive the dharma transmission, after which the disciple will be the master’s equal and therefore not smackable any more.
“Rouge” is wrong, unless you’re referring to a cosmetic