Exam reading. The cracking wit of an otherwise bone-dry study of French aesthetic theory – Histoire de l'Esthétique Française 1700-1900 (1920).
... The rest of the book is too mediocre to occupy us....:
... His aesthetic is grounded on absolutely nothing; therefore all the
criticisms we can heap on Cousin, we can repeat with even more severity
when judging the aesthetic of Lamennais... :
This scholar Théodore M. Mustoxidi was author of only one other book – Qu'est-ce que la mode? also of 1920.