 At age 40, he married a dancer, Élisabeth (Elise) Toulemont, known as Caryathis, the former mistress of Charles Dullin and an intimate friend of Jean Cocteau and Max Jacob.She hoped to rid him of his homosexual leanings.During this period he undertook a work of Christian moralism ("De l'abjection") before, much to the dismay of his wife, tumbling again into the arms of men, which he wrote about in "Chronique d'une passion" and "Eloge de la volupté".