Ernest Raynaud

Ernest-Gabriel-Nicolas Raynaud (1864-1936), French writer, poet, and when rather more formally attired, police commissioner. These photos date to about 1886-1890, when Raynaud was penning Le Signe (1887), Chairs profanes (1888), and Les Cornes du faune (1890).

Sources:

• Clerget, Fernand. Littérateurs et artistes : Ernest Raynaud. Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Association, 1905
• McGuinness, Patrick. Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France : From Anarchism to Action française. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.