Rodolphe made it a point to show courtesy to all. The stewardship of a public trust was a delicate matter. It required the creation of a general consensus; the studied garnering of public goodwill. After thirty years’ hard work on his great project, Rodolphe knew that, to many people, he was the Enantiodrome; any personal failing of his own was somehow a reflection on the merits of the great construction.