![]() Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice. ![]() ![]() An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. Raoule' s suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue. When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamored of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living. ![]()
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