Context: Île-de-France (, , "Island of France"), also known as the "région parisienne" ("Parisian Region"; see Etymology), is one of the 18 regions of France, and includes the city of Paris. It covers 12012 square kilometers (4638 square miles), and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,005,077 as of January 2014, or 18.2 percent of the population of France., France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary semi-presidential republic with the capital in Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse and Bordeaux., Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (5 February 1848 in Paris  12 May 1907 in Paris) was a French novelist who published his works as J.K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans. He is most famous for the novel "À rebours" (1884, published in English as "Against the Grain" or "Against Nature"). He supported himself by a 30-year career in the French civil service., Charles - Marie - Georges Huysmans ( French : ( al mai  isms ) ; February 5 , 1848 in Paris -- May 12 , 1907 in Paris ) was a French novelist who published his works as J.K. ( Joris - Karl ) Huysmans ( ( ois kal ) ) . He is most famous for the novel À rebours ( 1884 , published in English as Against the Grain or Against Nature ) . He supported himself by a 30 - year career in the French civil service . Huysmans ' work is considered remarkable for its idiosyncratic use of the French language , large vocabulary , descriptions , satirical wit and far - ranging erudition . First considered part of Naturalism , he became associated with the decadent movement with his publication of À rebours . His work expressed his deep pessimism , which had led him to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer . In later years , his novels reflected his study of Catholicism , religious conversion , and becoming an oblate . He discussed the iconography of Christian architecture at length in La cathédrale ( 1898 ) , set at Chartres and with its cathedral as the focus of the book . Là - bas ( 1891 ) , En route ( 1895 ) and La cathédrale ( 1898 ) are a trilogy that feature Durtal , an autobiographical character whose spiritual progress is tracked and who converts to Catholicism . In the novel that follows , L'Oblat ( 1903 ) , Durtal becomes an oblate in a monastery , as Huysmans himself was in the Benedictine Abbey at Ligugé , near Poitiers , in 1901 . La cathédrale was his most commercially successful work . Its profits enabled Huysmans to retire from his civil service job and live on his royalties ., Paris (French: ) is the capital and most populous city of France. It has an area of and a population in 2013 of 2,229,621 within its administrative limits. The city is both a commune and department, and forms the centre and headquarters of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an area of and a population in 2014 of 12,005,077, comprising 18.2 percent of the population of France., À rebours (translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) (1884) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. Its narrative concentrates almost entirely on its principal character and is mostly a catalogue of the tastes and inner life of Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive aesthete and antihero who loathes 19th-century bourgeois society and tries to retreat into an ideal artistic world of his own creation. "À rebours" contains many themes that became associated with the Symbolist aesthetic. In doing so, it broke from Naturalism and became the ultimate example of "decadent" literature., Subject: joris-karl huysmans, Relation: date_of_death, Options: (A) 12 (B) 12 may 1907 (C) 18 (D) 1848 (E) 1884 (F) 1907 (G) 2 (H) 2013 (I) 30 (J) 67
Output: 12 may 1907