{"id":4115,"date":"2009-01-28T01:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2009-01-28T01:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T01:29:34","slug":"ma-petite-ville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/28\/ma-petite-ville\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma Petite Ville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb.nl\/bc\/koopman\/1890-1919\/c35-en.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4114\" title=\"rudnicki.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rudnicki.jpg\" alt=\"rudnicki.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rudnicki.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/rudnicki-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 85vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A typically splendid <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> cover design by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kb.nl\/bc\/koopman\/1890-1919\/c35-en.html\" target=\"_blank\">L\u00e9on Rudnicki<\/a> for an 1898 volume of childhood memoirs by Jean Lorrain (1855\u20131906). The author was a flamboyantly homosexual poet, novelist and journalist whose addiction to ether and other excesses ended his life at the age of 50. Philippe Jullian is quoted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtq.com\/literature\/lorrain_j.html\" target=\"_blank\">glbtq.com<\/a> as saying Lorrain was &#8220;truly, at the <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em>, Sodom&#8217;s ambassador to Paris&#8221;. Jullian, as I never tire of repeating, wrote the best book on the Symbolist period, <em>Dreamers of Decadence<\/em> (1971), and that quote reminds me that I ought to track down a copy of his Lorrain biography.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/the-book-covers-archive\/\" target=\"_self\">The book covers archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typically splendid fin de si\u00e8cle cover design by L\u00e9on Rudnicki for an 1898 volume of childhood memoirs by Jean Lorrain (1855\u20131906). The author was a flamboyantly homosexual poet, novelist and journalist whose addiction to ether and other excesses ended his life at the age of 50. Philippe Jullian is quoted on glbtq.com as saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/01\/28\/ma-petite-ville\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ma Petite Ville&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,42,4,5,45],"tags":[136,157,156,158],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-nouveau","category-books","category-design","category-gay","category-symbolists","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-jean-lorrain","tag-leon-rudnicki","tag-philippe-jullian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-14n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}