"The road indicated must not be a narrow one: it must be wide and free for all, that each may follow it according to his tastes, his inspirations, and his particular genius. This road - the only good, the only free one, the only one that does not lead to false conceptions - is the road marked out for all ages by human reason; that which has been followed with varying tread, and in their several fashions, by all the great artists of ancient and modern times."
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, born 1814-01-27 in Paris, First Fre