Vichy is a dreadful place (not disagreeable, not boring, but ugly). There is nothing to attract the eye - bloated, jowly hotels, built in ridiculous straight lines, pretentious villas planted here and there to accord with the doubtful taste of fat women. These watering places should be razed, [otherwise] our imbecile grandchildren will think they are beautiful because they are old.
Letter from Mitterrand to his cousin, cited in P. Short, Mitterrand: a study in ambiguity (2013), 64
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