The Église Métropolitaine d'Art de Jésus Conducteur was a nineteenth-century esoteric Gnostic Christian sect founded by Erik Satie. Satie, a composer and pianist, served as cult's High Priest and Choi
Erik Satie, leader of the Church (c. 1895)
Emblem of the Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor, designed by Satie. It is a Greek cross and Latin cross linked together
Henry Gauthier-Villars
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Henry Gauthier-Villars, known by the pen name Willy, was a French fin de siècle writer and music critic who is today mostly known as the first husband of Colette. Other pseudonyms used by Gauthiers-Vi
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Henry Gauthier-Villars (woodcut by Félix Vallotton)