Why was the Paris salon rejecting 2/3 of all paintings submitted to it?

i came across this and i found it funny that when you're bored you play hangman on so im going to guess a : )

classical and renaissance ideals. he mainly focused in historical paintings, so you could also say that he drew his artistic inspiration from the bible, since he depicted and painted many scenes from it.

i believe their role is to instruct certain sections on when they are to join and when they are to stop