Editing Jean Moréas (section)

==Works==
Moréas published poetry in his publications ''Lutèce'' and ''Le Chat noir'', and collected his poems into two editions, ''Les Syrtes'' ("The Sandbanks") and ''Cantilènes'', which were strongly influenced by [[Paul Verlaine]].

He was initially a practitioner of the style of [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]], and wrote the ''[[Symbolist Manifesto]]'' (1886), which he published in the newspaper ''[[Le Figaro]]'', partly to redeem the reputation of the new generation of young writers from the charge of "[[Decadent movement|decadence]]" that the press had implied. He was considered one of the most important Symbolist poets until the early 1890s.

In 1891, as Symbolism became more openly associated with [[anarchism]] and as the [[French culture]] of the [[Belle Époque]] became increasingly dominated by [[revanchism]] and [[anti-German sentiment]], Moréas published ''Le Pèlerin passionné'' which rejected [[Northern Europe]]an and [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] influences, such as [[Romanticism]] (as well as some aspects of Symbolism), in favor of solely [[Classics|Classical]], [[Ancient Rome|Ancient Roman]] and [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]], influences. This work helped initiate the ''École Romane'', the aesthetic of which provided [[Charles Maurras]] with the ideology necessary for the [[far-right]] philosophy ''[[Action Française]]''.

Moréas also wrote ''Les Demoiselles Goubert'', a [[novel]], in association with [[Paul Adam (French novelist)|Paul Adam]]. His most important publications were:

*''Les Syrtes'' (1884)
*''Les Cantilènes'' (1886)
*''Le Pèlerin passionné'' (1891)
*''Stances'' (1893)
*''Contes de la vielle France'' (1904)