Description
ORIGINAL EDITION limited to 500 copies.
Published the same year as The accursed poets, Jadis & Naguère collected 42 pieces, including the famous poem dedicated to Georges Courteline, Languor, whose first verses were recognised as the founder of the decadent movement:
"I am the Empire at the end of decadence
Watching the great white barbarians go by
By composing indolent acrostics,
A golden style where the languor of the sun dances".
A copy in which the body of the text is free of any staining.
COPIES IN THE ORIGINAL BROCHURE ARE RARE.