One thousand nine hundred.
We are at the zenith of the Belle Époque.
The Universal Exhibition is in full swing, the Olympic Games in Paris attract the curious, the Moulin-Rouge is always full;
Oscar Wilde has just died, Henri de Régnier is completing
La Double Maîtresse
, Proust has definitely given up writing
Jean Santeuil
, and Colette publishes
Claudine at school
.
The same year, Pierre Louÿs, crowned with the scandalous success of
Chansons de Bilitis
then
La Femme et le Pantin
in 1898, binds with the one who will be celebrated by Remy de Gourmont in his
Letters to the Amazon
, the American Natalie Clifford Barney. , six years younger.
It is their epistolary relationships that we find here, going until 1921, four years before Louÿs' disappearance, correspondence supplemented by the letters written between the writer and the British poet Renée Vivien, ex-companion of Natalie Barney, died at the age of 32 in 1909, and nicknamed "Sapho 1900, Sapho hundred percent".
What do we read in this little hundred
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