Mademoiselle De Maupin

ISBN: 9781333065256 出版年：2016 页码：374 Theophile Gautier Forgotten Books

For my own part, not being accustomed to look at statues in certain places, I thought, like other people, that the vine leaf carved by the chisels of the superintendent of the fine arts was the most ridiculous thing in the world. It appears that I was wrong, and that the vine leaf is among the most meritorious of institutions.