1900 ca, FRANCE: The french Decadentist writer Joris-Karl HUYSMANS (Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans, 1848 1907), postumous portrait by painter Eugène Delâtre (18641938). He is most famous for the novel" À rebours" (1884, published in English as" Against the Grain or Against Nature"). He became associated with the Decadent movement