pseudo-elite

Updated: June 18, 2025

But the evil it has done is at least equal to the good: and in a time like the present the good quickly turns to evil. A pseudo-elite fastens on Paris and blows the loud trumpet of publicity and the voices of all the rest of France are drowned.

Romain Rolland - Jean Christophe: in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House