Auguste-Maurice Barrès was a French novelist, journalist, philosopher, and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. In politics, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life.
Barrès in 1923
Portrait of a young Maurice Barrès.
Les Déracinés, published in 1897.
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1918
The Decadent movement was a late-19th-century artistic and literary movement, centered in Western Europe, that followed an aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality.
Apostle Bartolomew flayed alive, by Jan Luyken, 1685
Title page of the magazine Le Décadent
Medardo Rosso, Sick child, 1903–04
Portrait of Euphemia Pavlova Nosova [ru] by Nikolai Kalmakov [ru]