Le Vice Suprême

by Joséphin Péladan, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (Préface)

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472 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1884

About the author

Joséphin Péladan (28 March 1858, Lyon – 27 June 1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. His father was a journalist who had written on prophecies, and professed a philosophic-occult Catholicism. He established the Salon de la Rose + Croix for painters, writers, and musicians sharing his artistic ideals, the Symbolists in particular.

He sometimes published under the name Le Sâr Mérodack Joséphin Péladan.