page_title: Rachilde
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caption_attribution_description: French writer Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) (1860-1953)
context_page_description: Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery. Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
  A diverse and challenging author, Rachilde's most famous work includes the darkly erotic novels Monsieur Vénus, La Marquise de Sade, and La Jongleuse. She also wrote a 1928 monograph on gender identity, Pourquoi je ne suis pas féministe. Her work was noted for being frank, fantastical, and always with a suggestion of autobiography underlying questions of gender, sexuality, and identity.
  She said of herself, "I always acted as an individual, not thinking to found a society or to upset the present one."
context_section_description: Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (February 11, 1860 – April 4, 1953).  Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
  A diverse and challenging author, Rachilde's most famous work includes the darkly erotic novels Monsieur Vénus (1884), La Marquise de Sade (1887), and La Jongleuse (1900).  She also wrote a 1928 monograph on gender identity, Pourquoi je ne suis pas féministe ("Why I am not a Feminist").  Her work was noted for being frank, fantastical, and always with a suggestion of autobiography underlying questions of gender, sexuality, and identity.
  She said of herself, "I always acted as an individual, not thinking to found a society or to upset the present one."
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