I went to Marseille, however, because it prides itself on its reputation in France as an unforgivingly working-class city with no time for pretension, the opposite of Parisian snobbery and elitism.
Bryant's comments echo those of actor David Morrissey, who last year said the arts were being closed off to many young people by a culture of elitism.
Yet, unlike the English (and Italians), I am imbued with an Australian contempt for divisions of class, for overt shows of elitism and blatant nepotism.
In a review of a filmed version of one of his plays, Pauline Kael argued that all criticism of Miller's artistic work is summarily dismissed as right-wing elitism.
It is managed and organised around corporate interests, which promote elitism and perpetuate inequality.
The cacophony of demands for actual ideas is just a chimera created by the paradigm of elitism to ensure the survival of the status quo to derail didactic cogitations about reality!
It contends that popular culture is becoming increasingly gentrified, not just in the elitism that still holds sway in so-called highbrow forms like opera and classical music, but in the drift of society at large towards privilege and exclusion.
The favourite pastime of us on the so-called liberal left and the chic radical websites we turn to when we need a comfort blanket is to lob fruit at Westminster and the private school elitism that drives it.
In 2012 a Chiswick lifeboat took the protester Trenton Oldfield ashore after he leapt into the path of racers to publicise what he described as "elitism and the inequality that arises out of elitism".
In a period where many people have died following benefit cuts, Oldfield's protest against elitism and inequality is timely and symbolic.
BillyMills went on to explain: St E's view of what it is to be fully human is exhilarating, but unfortunately it is extremely exclusive and I don't think it's possible to discuss the book without including both the excitement and the elitism.
