Editing Remy de Gourmont (section)

==Life==
Gourmont was born at [[Bazoches-au-Houlme]], [[Orne]], into a [[publishing]] family from [[Cotentin]]. He was the son of [[Count]] Auguste-Marie de Gourmont and his countess, born Mathilde de Montfort. In 1866 he moved to a manor close to [[Villedieu-les-Poêles|Villedieu]] near [[English Channel|La Manche]]. He studied [[law]] at [[Caen]], and was awarded a bachelor's degree in law in 1879; upon his graduation he moved to Paris.

In 1881, Gourmont was employed by the [[Bibliothèque nationale]]. He began to write for general circulation periodicals such as ''[[Le Monde (Paris, 1860)|Le Monde]]'' and ''[[Le Contemporain]]''. He took an interest in ancient literature, following the footsteps of [[Gustave Kahn]]. During this period, he also met [[Berthe Courrière]], model for, and heir of, the sculptor [[Auguste Clésinger]], with whom he formed a lifelong attachment, he and Berthe living together for the rest of their lives.

Gourmont also began a literary alliance with [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], to whom he dedicated his prose work ''Le Latin mystique'' (Mystical Latin). In 1889 Gourmont became one of the founders of the ''[[Mercure de France]]'', which became a rallying point of the Symbolist movement.<ref>Burne, Glen S. (1963). ''Remy de Gourmont: His Ideas and Influence in England and America.'' Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.</ref> Between 1893 and 1894 he was the co-editor, along with [[Alfred Jarry]], of [[L'Ymagier]], a magazine dedicated to symbolist wood carvings. In 1891 he published a polemic called ''Le Joujou Patriotisme'' (Patriotism, a toy) in which he argued that France and Germany shared an aesthetic culture and urged a rapprochement between the two countries, contrary to the wishes of nationalists in the French government. This political essay led to his losing his job at the Bibliothèque Nationale,<ref>Curtis, Michael (1959). ''Three Against the Third Republic: Sorel, Barrès and Maurras.'' New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, p. 40.</ref> despite [[Octave Mirbeau]]'s chronicles{{what?|date=May 2022}}.

[[Image:Picture of Gourmont, Symons and Ellis.jpg|220px|thumb|Gourmont, [[Arthur Symons]] and [[Havelock Ellis]].]]
During this same period, Gourmont was stricken with [[lupus vulgaris]].<ref>{{cite journal | last = Denkinger | first = Marc | title = Remy de Gourmont Critique | journal = PMLA | volume = 52 | issue = 4 | date = 1937 | pages = 1148 | doi = 10.2307/458509 | jstor=458509| s2cid = 163530219 }} Denkinger refers to the disease as "lupus tuberculeux", apparently lupus vulgaris, which is a form of tuberculosis of the skin, unrelated to [[systemic lupus erythematosus]], the disease now commonly known as lupus.</ref>  Disfigured by this illness, he largely retired from public view appearing only at the offices of the ''Mercure de France''. In 1910, Gourmont met [[Natalie Clifford Barney]], to whom he dedicated his ''Lettres à l'Amazone'' (Letters to the Amazon).

Gourmont's health continued to decline and he began to suffer from [[locomotor ataxia]] and be increasingly unable to walk. He was deeply depressed by the outbreak of [[World War I]] and died in [[Paris]] of [[cerebral congestion]] in 1915. Berthe Courrière was his sole heir, inheriting a substantial body of unpublished work which she sent to his brother Jean de Gourmont, and dying within the year. Gourmont and Courrière are buried Chopins tomb in [[Père-Lachaise Cemetery]].