French symbolist & Decadent Writing of the 1890's Atlas Arkhive Two - Documents of the Avant Garde The largest ever selection of writings from the Decadent and Symbolist writers of the French fin-de-siecle - a period whose social and spiritual ills had so much in common with those of today. The selection is based on a series of essays on contemporary writers published by the foremost critic and author of the period: Remy de Gourmont.