The traditional originality test in France is that the work must express or reflect the author's
personality, a fairly subjective notion to be sure. 128 According to a French commentator, it was normal
that such a subjective notion would emerge during the nineteenth century because "the modes of
expression then in vogue -- sculpture, painting and writings -- is ... the expression of (inner) turmoil
(tourmente) of the author, the emotional, subjective and non-rational aspect of human thought. In a
way, what differentiates one work from another is its irrationality, a reflection of the author's own irrational mind.