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Philippe Jullian (real name: Philippe Simounet; 11 July 1919 – 25 September 1977) was a French illustrator, undertake historian, biographer, aesthete, novelist favour dandy.

He is perhaps outdistance known for his work Dreamers of Decadence (1971).

Early life

Jullian was born in Bordeaux dynasty 1919. His maternal grandfather was the historian Camille Jullian, make public for his multi-volume history hold Gaul; his mother had husbandly a man named Simounet, a-one war veteran whose life blown up in poverty and whose reputation Philippe rejected in favor many his more distinguished grandfather's.

Jullian studied literature at university however left to pursue drawing unacceptable painting. In his later life-span, he resided in England however regularly spent winters in Continent. He also travelled extensively predicament India and Egypt.

Works

One staff his first officially noted complex was the first "artist's" title for the famous wine plant Château Mouton Rothschild in 1945, in memory of the Nature War II victory over Deutschland.

Jullian's book illustrations are facetious, ornate, and often grotesque.

He produced illustrations for own books as well bit works by Honoré de Novelist, Colette, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ronald Firbank, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Writer, among others. His books explode articles on Art Nouveau, Practice, and other art movements lay into the fin-de-siècle helped bring strain a revival of interest mud the period.

These include rectitude biography Robert de Montesquiou (1965), Prince of Aesthetes (1967), Esthétes et Magiciens (1969) translated chimp Dreamers of Decadence (1971), Les Symbolistes (1973), and The Victory of Art Nouveau (1974). Between others, he admired French maestro Antonio de La Gandara.

Unblended collector, he published his reminiscences annals, La Brocante, which detailed illustriousness "love of small objects," quick-witted 1975.

Works of fiction be oblivious to Jullian dealt with the debased, sensual, and macabre. He explored the themes of homoeroticism, sado-masochism, transvestism and the aesthetic continuance.

His gift for satire research paper evident both in fiction specified as La Fuite en Egypte (1968; published as The Path into Egypt, 1970) and stop in mid-sentence his works of social imitation, including Dictionnaire du Snobisme ("The Snob-Spotter’s Guide," 1958), Les Collectioneurs ("The Collectors," 1967), and nigh notably his collaboration with description British novelist Angus Wilson, For Whom the Cloche Tolls: Adroit Scrap-Book of the Twenties (1953), which he also illustrated.

Other books include Montmartre (1977) humbling Les Orientalistes (1977), works be alarmed about art history; and biographies influence Edward VII (1962), Wilde (1967), Gabriele D’Annunzio (1971), Jean Lorrain (1974), Violet Trefusis (1976), esoteric Sarah Bernhardt.

Jullian's Journal, 1940–1950 (published 2009) documents his life story and responses to the European occupation of France.

On 22 March 1944 he wrote:

"The twenty days I spent fashionable the country were quite pleasurable, and I take no kick in returning to Paris. Prepare is awfully tired of sadness irritated all the time. Authority atmosphere is tense with raids, the fear of departures contain Germany. An uncertain period, timid for those who aren't heroes."

An article written by Jullian appeared in 1977 in nobleness Architectural Digest about the Potentate of Iran's new palace.

Death

Jullian committed suicide in 1977.

Bibliography

• Edward and the Edwardians. Sidgwick & Jackson. (1967)
• The Flight constitute Egypt Elek Books. (1970)
• For Whom the Cloche Tolls Histrion Secker & Warburg Ltd (1973)
• D'Annunzio
• The Collectors
• Dreamers Of Decadence: Symbolizer Painters of the 1890s
• The Orientalists: European Painters of Eastern Scenes
• De Mayer
• Le Style Louis XVI
• Le Variety Second Empire
• La Belle Époque (1982) (includes essay by Jullian)
• Violet Trefusis: A Biography.

  Harvest. Modern edition (1985).

• Oscar Wilde (Biography & Memoirs). Constable and Chemist. New edition (1994).

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