Of all the enemies Mérimée... «Through the Window»
Oksident5 марта 2017Of all the enemies Mérimée faced, bad restoration was the one which obsessed and infuriated him most. ‘I have no hesitation in saying that neither the iconoclastic fury of Protestantism nor the stupid vandalism of the Revolution has left such deplorable marks on our monuments as the bad taste of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The barbarians at least used to leave ruins; the so-called repairers have left us only their own sorry work.’
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