Henri-Edmond Limet called Edmond Bailly (19 June 1850 – 8 September 1916) was a French and publisher and bookseller.

Biography

Edmond Bailly was a musician and writer of symbolic, theosophical and

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inspiration. He wrote essays, narratives and articles on "esoteric music". Established in October 1889, Bailly ran an occult bookshop known as the Independent Art Bookstore (Librairie de l'art independant) which was a central meeting place for artists, writers, and musicians in fin-de-siècle Paris. It was located in several places, most notably at 11

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. Bailly published several magazines and took care of young authors. He became one of the animators of symbolism but also of the

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, Louis-Nicolas Ménard began publishing their first works at the Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, which closed in 1917.

Works

* 1888: ''Étude sur la vie et les œuvres de

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.'' * 1887: ''Lumen, féerie chatoyante''. * 1900: ''Le son dans la nature''. * 1900: ''Le Pittoresque musical à l'Exposition''. * 1901: La musique et l'éducation sociale, in ''Congrès international de l'éducation sociale. I: Rapports présentés; II: Compte rendu des séances''. * 1903: ''L'Islamisme et son enseignement ésotérique''. * 1906: ''A propos de la résonance inférieure.'' * 1909: ''La Légende de Diamant, sept récits du monde celtique''. * 1909: ''Libres Etudes: science, religion, art, philosophie, morale, sociologie, folklore.'' * 1912: ''Le Chant des voyelles comme invocation aux dieux planétaires''.Read online, on Pierre Painblanc's site

Bibliography

* Frédéric Maget, ''Edmond Bailly et la Librairie de l’Art indépendant (1889–1917)'', mémoire de master, Centre d'histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 2006. * Denis Herlin, "Le cercle de l’Art indépendant", in ''Debussy, La musique et les arts'', catalogue of the exhibition Debussy at the musée de l’Orangerie (22 February - 11 June 2012), Musée d’Orsay/Skira/Flammarion, 2012, (), (). * Denis Herlin, « À la Librairie de l’Art indépendant : musique, poésie, art et ésotérisme », ''Histoires littéraires'', vol. XVII (n^o 68 ; October–December 2016), ().

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Edmond Bailly. ''Librairie de l'art indépendant''
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