biography
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Péladan, Joseph
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known as Joséphin Péladan
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pronunciation:
[payladã]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1858–1918)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Lyon, SC France. He turned to the occult sciences and established the Salon de la Rose-Croix (1892–8), proclaiming himself Sâr Péladan. Under the general title of Décadence latine he published from 1884 onwards 21 volumes against materialism, which include Le Vice Suprême (1884), L'Art idéaliste et mystique (1894), and La Terre du Sphinx (1898), in which he expressed his ideas on aesthetics, from Parsifal to Don Quixote. |
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