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" Complete rupture, then, and without any transition period, with the past, or rather a very definite intention to carry out this rupture, for the past is always too strong to let itself be effaced in this way by a stroke of the pen. However they disliked it, Percier and Fontaine continued it in a certain sense, this despised SACRED ANTIQUITY 95 century that had been unfortunate enough to produce a Cressent and an Oeben, a Riesener and a Carlin, since it was he who had inaugurated the famous re...turn to antiquity ; but Percier and Fontaine, Jacob Desmalter and his rivals, the Lignereux, the Rascalons, the Burettes, go to the end of the path on which their predecessors had entered cautiously and without any surrender of their independence, they admire everything in antiquity, pell-mell, without distinction, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, the archaic and the decadent, sculpture and furniture, from the Parthenon down to the most vulgar decorations of the wall daubers of Pompeii. It is antique, therefore it is logical ; antique, therefore beautiful ; antique, therefore we moderns can do nothing better than copy it, and if anyone ventures to exercise his critical faculties upon these holy things, what sacrilege!
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