Fontaney, who had witnessed the final rehearsal (of Antony) , commented as follows: "Well made melodrama--the "Young France" gang present in force--leather hats, overcoats with large lapels, thick bunches of curls, cloaks of green American-cloth; lizards swimming in the rain. --Petrus Borel and his poetry! Ah!"
Antoine Fontaney via André Maurois, The Titans (Fontaney was definitely Team Romanticism and a sympathetic witness to everything he mentions here. )










