M.Ceres showed his enthusiasm for demolitions, tunnelings, constructions, reconstructions, and all other fruitful operations.
"We build to-day in an admirable style," said he; "everywhere majestic avenues are being reared.

Was ever anything as fine as our arcaded bridges and our domed hotels!" "You are forgetting that big palace surmounted an immense melon-shaped dome," grumbled by M.Daniset, an old art amateur, in a voice of restrained rage.

"I am amazed at the degree of ugliness which a modern city can attain.

Alca is becoming Americanised.

Everywhere we are destroying all that is free, unexpected, measured, restrained, human, or traditional among the things that are left us.