Founded in 1888, and from 1891, under the presidency of Maurice Bucquet (c. 1860-1921), dedicated to the cultivation of photography as a fine art. It played a role in France similar to that of the Photo-Secessionists in America or the Linked Ring in Britain. Its members numbered some of the most accomplished French pictorialists, like Robert Demachy and Émile Constant Puyo, who in 1903 founded La Revue de photographie to replace the Bulletin du Photo-Club de Paris. Bucquet organized a series of prestigious art photography salons between 1894 and 1914. In the 1920s, under Puyo's leadership, the society remained wedded to pictorialism, and closed in 1928.
— Kelley E. Wilder
