 This movement essentially gave way to Symbolism when "Le Décadent" closed down in 1889 and Anatole Baju turned toward politics and became associated with anarchy.A few writers continued the decadent tradition, such as Octave Mirbeau, but Decadence was no longer a recognized movement, let alone a force in literature or art.Beginning with the association of decadence with cultural decline, it is not uncommon to associate decadence in general with transitional times and their associated moods of pessimism and uncertainty.