Adolphe Retté

Retté, Adolphe (1863-1930). An ardent supporter of the French Symbolist movement, to which he contributed poetry (Cloches en la nuit, 1889), prose (Thulé des brumes, 1894), and literary and art criticism. He became an equally ardent leader of the anti-Symbolist reaction when, from late 1894, he denounced Mallarmé and Gauguin in the name of a return to traditional French values of clarity, lyricism, and love of nature.

— James Kearns