"There was only one living scion of this family which had once been
so numerous that it had occupied all the territories of the
Ile-de-France and La Brie. The Duc Jean was a slender, nervous
young man of thirty, with hollow cheeks, cold, steel-blue eyes, a
straight, thin nose and delicate hands." Thus we are introduced to
the character of Des Esseintes in a novel that has been banned and
censored for years, but still lives on as being one of the finest
examples of the "decadent" literature written by "fin-de-siecle"
(late nineteenth century) writers. Oscar Wilde, himself, called the
novel "the Breviary of Decadence."
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