Crossword-Solution: ESTHETE 7 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

She had under her thumb a good-looking boy, Léopold Graillot, a journeyman mechanic, who was clever and rather a _poseur_: he was the esthete of the company.

That is what art is to be, must come to in the consciousness of the artist most of all, he is perhaps the greatest offender in matters of judgment and taste; and the next greatest offender is the dreadful go-between or "middleman" esthete who so glibly contributes effete values to our present day conceptions.

Pemberton; pretending to be a blue-stocking with a passion for the solid and heavy in literature; pretending to be a Spartan who must rise at dawn and, after a plunge in ice-cold mountain water, climb, with only big Don, the Newfoundland, for company, up to the sluice-box; there to pretend she was an esthete to whom the sunrise, while she communed alone with nature, revealed things invisible to the world below.

Really it is a perverted instinct." Meanwhile the Abbé Patouille and Maurice d'Esparvieu were strolling leisurely along in the wake of the esthete and the librarian.

The font of all literature, the mighty well of inspiration, the record of the ages--it was beloved not only of the scientist and historian, but the literati and the esthete.