Honore de Balzac

Pierre Grassou Honore de Balzac

Whenever you have gone to take a serious look atthe exhibition of works of sculpture and painting, suchas it has been since the revolution of 1830, have younot been seized by a sense of uneasiness, weariness, sadness, at the sight of those long and over-crowdedgalleries? Since 1830, the true Salon no longer exists. The Louvre has again been taken by assault, -thistime by a populace of artists who have maintainedthemselves in it. In other days, when the Salon presented only thechoicest works of art, it conferred the highest honoron the creations there exhibite