When shown in her splendor, the 'charming woman' is a far more exalting object than 'the idiotic paintings, over doors, decors, circus backdrops, sideboards, or popular illuminations' that maddened Rimbaud; adorned with the most modern of artifices, worked on with the newest techniques, she comes from the remotest ages, from Thebes, Minos, Chich Itz