. Art in France. (Phut. SOO.—BIKDS KYE VIKW OF THE OFEKAHOrSE. from Paris vu on Killon. by A. Schoclchcrand O: D(?cugis.) 382 NATURALISM. rrc. 8oi.—GARXIER. OPERA HOUSE. PARIS. places make no such ap-peal. In the eighteenthcentury Cochin theYounger said that Rouenwas the ugliest town inFrance, for the very reasonwhich makes us now con-sider it the most pictu-resque. Cochm spoke asa modern, and we are allantiquarians. The beautyof the buildings owes agood deal to association; we regret the remains of history too muchto be able to admire the cold and commodious structures which re-place them. Th
. Art in France. (Phut. SOO.—BIKDS KYE VIKW OF THE OFEKAHOrSE. from Paris vu on Killon. by A. Schoclchcrand O: D(?cugis.) 382 NATURALISM. rrc. 8oi.—GARXIER. OPERA HOUSE. PARIS. places make no such ap-peal. In the eighteenthcentury Cochin theYounger said that Rouenwas the ugliest town inFrance, for the very reasonwhich makes us now con-sider it the most pictu-resque. Cochm spoke asa modern, and we are allantiquarians. The beautyof the buildings owes agood deal to association; we regret the remains of history too muchto be able to admire the cold and commodious structures which re-place them. This gives rise to vain recriminations. A living citycannot be a museum of relics. Modern French architecture, though it aims at comfort, remainsfaithful to classical decoration. If but a few important monumentssurvived from which to reconstruct the artistic history of the lastthree centuries—the Louvre, Versailles, the Place de la Concorde,the Bourse, and the Palais des Champs-Elysees—we might passfrom summit to summit, from Louis XIV to ! 900, without overstep-ping the boundaries of classical art, or encountering other formst
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