"Il n'y a de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien; tout ce qui est utile est laid."
— Théophile Gautier

January 1, 1970

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Sources

Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835; Paris: Charpentier, 1866), Préface, p. 21; Burton Rascoe (trans.) Mademoiselle de Maupin, and One of Cleopatra's Nights (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925) p. xxv.