Saint-Georges de Bouhelier's Naturisme

At the end of the nineteenth century in France, there arose a literary movement, termed le naturisme by its founder, Saint-Georges de Bouh lier. Anti-symbolist in its conception, le naturisme contained as its tenets a return to clarity and simplicity of expression and a strict avoidance of symbolist hermeticism, characteristic of Mallarm and others. Bouh lier and his disciples triggered a polemic that raged throughout the final years of the nineteenth century and involved writers such as Emile Zola and Andr Gide before its demise in the early twentieth century.