Louis-Xavier Ricard

…1876), edited by Louis-Xavier de Ricard and Catulle Mendès and published by Alphonse Lemerre. Their principles, though, had been formulated earlier in Théophile Gautier’s preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835), which expounded the theory of art for art’s sake, in Leconte de Lisle’s preface to his Poèmes antiques (1852), and…