La Châtre
The decade of the '30s was difficult for De Bosschere. He wrote several novels that he regarded as failures and found little illustration work due to the poor economic climate. From 1938 he lived a secluded life in La Châtre in central France. He kept a diary from 1946 titled "Journal d'un Rebelle Solitaire" that has remained unreleased. He also made two anthologies of most of his poetry: "Derniers poèmes de l'Obscure" (1948) and "Héritiers de l'abime" (1950).