 Capitalizing on the momentum of Huysmans' work, Anatole Baju founded the magazine "Le Décadent" in 1886, an effort to define and organize the Decadent movement in a formal way.This group of writers did not only look to escape the boredom of the banal, but they sought to shock, scandalize, and subvert the expectations and values of society, believing that such freedom and creative experimentation would improve humanity.Not everyone was comfortable with Baju and "Le Décadent," even including some who had been published in its pages.