In La Briere's system, on the other hand, all that is glorious and lovely must be suppressed,--woman's beauty, music, painting, poetry.

Society will not be overthrown, that is true, but, I ask you, who would willingly accept such a life?
All useful things are ugly and forbidding.

A kitchen is indispensable, but you take care not to sit there; you live in the salon, which you adorn, like this, with superfluous things.

Of what _use_, let me ask you, are these charming wall-paintings, this carved wood-work?
There is nothing beautiful but that which seems to us useless.

We called the sixteenth century the Renascence with admirable truth of language.