Charles Gautier [SEP] position held
Charles Gautier
Charles Gautier (25 January 1945 – 11 June 2014) was a French politician who was a member of the Senate of France, representing the Loire-Atlantique department. He was a member of the Socialist Party; a former mayor of Saint-Herblain, he died of colon cancer at his home in the town.
External links.
- Page on the Senate website
, Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Gérard de Nerval, Eugène Delacroix and Alexandre Dumas. Monthly "séances" were held at the Hôtel de Lauzun (at that time Hôtel Pimodan) on the Île Saint-Louis.
Gautier wrote about the club in an article entitled "Le Club des Haschischins", published in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" in February 1846. In it he described his first visit:
"One December evening, obeying a mysterious summons, drafted in enigmatic terms understood by affiliates but unintelligible