“A lock of hair was not the biggest conquest of the Romans; it was however, one of the longest lasting; they often recover from the tombs of women this ornament intact: it has withstood the scissors of the stars, of the girls of night, when they would seek in vain the brow and the hearts that it once decorated. The myrrhed braids, item of worship of the most transient of the passions, lived longer than empires. Death, that breaks all chains, could not destroy this light net.”