A review by sebarose
Treatise on Elegant Living by Honoré de Balzac

3.0

This book contained a particularly interesting justification for the importance and service to society provided by men of elegant leisure: without men of elegant leisure, politicians, workers, the middle and lower classes, as well of the non-elegant upper classes, have no reason to work, no light in their life, no purpose or hope for humanity. The finely attired man working hard at socializing and not working is performing a valuable service to humankind. Oh, to be so dandy!