Rachilde

Rachilde (1860-1953), born Marguerite Eymery, was a French novelist, journalist, and playwright who was a prominent figure of the Decadent Movement in France. In addition to The Animal (L'Animale) (1893), she also wrote the succès de scandale entitled Monsieur Vénus (1884), which launched her career at twenty-four. She was a creative advisor and book reviewer at the Mercure de France, and a salonnière of a weekly literary salon that ran more than fifty years.