chandelle
;
Lorelei
Mallarmé,
Divagations
;
Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard
Rodenbach,
La Carillonneur
Rostand,
Cyrano de Bergerac
Stoker,
Dracula
Wells,
The Invisible Man
1898 Zola writes his pro-Dreyfus pamphlet
J’accuse
, published in
L’Aurore
, after the acquittal of Esterhazy. Zola is proscuted and forced to go into exile in England. Height of the ‘Affair’, France profoundly divided. Foundation of the League of the Rights of Man (pro-Dreyfus) and of the anti-Dreyfusard League of the French Fatherland. Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium. Anglo-French disputes in the Sudan (Fashoda Incident). Start of construction of the Paris Metro. Havelock Ellis publishes
Sexual Inversion
and facesprosecution for outrage to public morals. Death of Beardsley, Mallarmé, Rodenbach, Moreau, Rops.
Gourmont,
D’un pays lointain
Huysmans,
La Cathédrale
Lorrain,
Ma petite ville
;
La dame turque
Louÿs,
La Femme et le pantin
Richepin,
Contes de la décadence romaine
Nietzsche,
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness
1899 Death of Félix Faure, election of Émile Loubet as President of the Republic. On the insistence of Clemenceau and Jaurès, Dreyfus is given a second trial, found guilty with ‘extenuating circumstances’, and offered a pardon by the government. Charles Maurras founds the Monarchist-Catholic movement Action Française. Start of the Boer War. Krafft-Ebing publishes
Psychopathia Sexualis
. Marconi’s wireless telegraphy transmits successfully across the Atlantic. Arthur Symons publishes his influential study
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
.
Bergson,
Le Rire
Gide,
Prométhée mal enchainé
Gourmont,
Le Songe d’une femme
;
L’Esthétique de la langue française
Lorrain,
Heures d’Afrique
;
Madame Baringhel
Mallarmé,
Poésies
(posthumous)
Mirbeau,
Le Jardin des supplices
1900 Universal Exhibition held in Paris, the most brilliant of its kind to date. Olympic Games held in Paris. Boxer Revolt in China. Reduction of the working week to sixty hours. Paris Metro Line 1 opens. Max Planck defines law of black-body radiation, the basis for quantum theory. Death of Wilde.
Freud,
The Interpretation of Dreams
Gourmont,
La Culture des idées
Lorrain,
Histoires de masques
;
Vingt femmes
Mirbeau,
Le Journal d’une femme de chambre
Conrad,
Lord Jim
1901 Second visit of Tsar and Tsarina of Russia to France. Founding of the Radical Socialist Party. Picasso’s first exhibition in Paris. Death of Queen Victoria.
Freud,
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Huysmans,
Saint Lydwine de Schiedam
Jarry,
Messaline
,
roman de l’ancienne Rome
;
Le Surmâle
Lorrain,
Monsieur de Phocas
Mirbeau,
Les 21 jours d’un neurasthénique
Liane de Pougy,
L’Idylle sapphique
Rodenbach,
Le Rouet des brumes
(posthumous collection of stories)
Kipling,
Kim
Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands
Rodin illustrates Mirbeau’s
Le Jardin des supplices
JULES BARBEY D’AUREVILLY
Don Juan’s Crowning Love-Affair
Innocence is the devil’s choicest dish.
(A.)
I
‘I S he still alive, then, the old rogue?’
‘Dear God! Still alive, yes!—and by God’s command, Madame—I added, remembering her piety—of the parish of Sainte-Clotilde, the parish of dukes!—The King is dead! Long live the King! as they used to say under the old monarchy before it was broken, like a set of antique Sèvres porcelain. But Don Juan will survive all democracies, he is a monarch that no one will break.’
‘In any case, the devil is immortal!’ she said self-approvingly.
‘He even…’
‘Who?… the devil?…’
‘No, Don Juan… supped, three days ago, at a cabaret… Guess where?…’
‘At your frightful Maison-d’Or, * I suppose…’
‘By no means, Madame! Don Juan no longer sets foot in the place… there’s nothing there piquant enough for the taste of his Highness. The princely Don Juan has always rather resembled the famous monk D’Arnaud de Brescia * who, according to the chronicles, lived
;
Lorelei
Mallarmé,
Divagations
;
Un coup de dés n’abolira jamais le hasard
Rodenbach,
La Carillonneur
Rostand,
Cyrano de Bergerac
Stoker,
Dracula
Wells,
The Invisible Man
1898 Zola writes his pro-Dreyfus pamphlet
J’accuse
, published in
L’Aurore
, after the acquittal of Esterhazy. Zola is proscuted and forced to go into exile in England. Height of the ‘Affair’, France profoundly divided. Foundation of the League of the Rights of Man (pro-Dreyfus) and of the anti-Dreyfusard League of the French Fatherland. Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium. Anglo-French disputes in the Sudan (Fashoda Incident). Start of construction of the Paris Metro. Havelock Ellis publishes
Sexual Inversion
and facesprosecution for outrage to public morals. Death of Beardsley, Mallarmé, Rodenbach, Moreau, Rops.
Gourmont,
D’un pays lointain
Huysmans,
La Cathédrale
Lorrain,
Ma petite ville
;
La dame turque
Louÿs,
La Femme et le pantin
Richepin,
Contes de la décadence romaine
Nietzsche,
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness
1899 Death of Félix Faure, election of Émile Loubet as President of the Republic. On the insistence of Clemenceau and Jaurès, Dreyfus is given a second trial, found guilty with ‘extenuating circumstances’, and offered a pardon by the government. Charles Maurras founds the Monarchist-Catholic movement Action Française. Start of the Boer War. Krafft-Ebing publishes
Psychopathia Sexualis
. Marconi’s wireless telegraphy transmits successfully across the Atlantic. Arthur Symons publishes his influential study
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
.
Bergson,
Le Rire
Gide,
Prométhée mal enchainé
Gourmont,
Le Songe d’une femme
;
L’Esthétique de la langue française
Lorrain,
Heures d’Afrique
;
Madame Baringhel
Mallarmé,
Poésies
(posthumous)
Mirbeau,
Le Jardin des supplices
1900 Universal Exhibition held in Paris, the most brilliant of its kind to date. Olympic Games held in Paris. Boxer Revolt in China. Reduction of the working week to sixty hours. Paris Metro Line 1 opens. Max Planck defines law of black-body radiation, the basis for quantum theory. Death of Wilde.
Freud,
The Interpretation of Dreams
Gourmont,
La Culture des idées
Lorrain,
Histoires de masques
;
Vingt femmes
Mirbeau,
Le Journal d’une femme de chambre
Conrad,
Lord Jim
1901 Second visit of Tsar and Tsarina of Russia to France. Founding of the Radical Socialist Party. Picasso’s first exhibition in Paris. Death of Queen Victoria.
Freud,
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Huysmans,
Saint Lydwine de Schiedam
Jarry,
Messaline
,
roman de l’ancienne Rome
;
Le Surmâle
Lorrain,
Monsieur de Phocas
Mirbeau,
Les 21 jours d’un neurasthénique
Liane de Pougy,
L’Idylle sapphique
Rodenbach,
Le Rouet des brumes
(posthumous collection of stories)
Kipling,
Kim
Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands
Rodin illustrates Mirbeau’s
Le Jardin des supplices
JULES BARBEY D’AUREVILLY
Don Juan’s Crowning Love-Affair
Innocence is the devil’s choicest dish.
(A.)
I
‘I S he still alive, then, the old rogue?’
‘Dear God! Still alive, yes!—and by God’s command, Madame—I added, remembering her piety—of the parish of Sainte-Clotilde, the parish of dukes!—The King is dead! Long live the King! as they used to say under the old monarchy before it was broken, like a set of antique Sèvres porcelain. But Don Juan will survive all democracies, he is a monarch that no one will break.’
‘In any case, the devil is immortal!’ she said self-approvingly.
‘He even…’
‘Who?… the devil?…’
‘No, Don Juan… supped, three days ago, at a cabaret… Guess where?…’
‘At your frightful Maison-d’Or, * I suppose…’
‘By no means, Madame! Don Juan no longer sets foot in the place… there’s nothing there piquant enough for the taste of his Highness. The princely Don Juan has always rather resembled the famous monk D’Arnaud de Brescia * who, according to the chronicles, lived
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