Complex sentence: It was active from about 1844 to 1849 and counted the literary and intellectual elite of Paris among its members, including Dr. Jacques-Joseph Moreau, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval, Eugène Delacroix and Alexandre Dumas.
Split into simpler sentences: It was active from about 1844 to 1849 and counted the literary and intellectual elite of Paris among its members. These included Dr. Jacques-Joseph Moreau, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval, Eugène Delacroix, and Alexandre Dumas.