He also describes her as "too brazen for her age." Like many of the Salpetriere hysterics, she seemed to combine an air of innocence with one of sexual knowingness--what Arthur Symons called (in his poem "La
Melinite: Moulin Rouge," about the dancer Jane Avril, who as it happens also spent time in Salpetriere) a "depraved virginity."
En 1890, bajo el seudonimo de "
Melinite" bailo en la "cuadrilla naturalista" del Moulin Rouge.
Here is how the Zionists should work, Herzl explained, if they "were obliged to clear a country of wild beastsC*" "We should not take spear and lance," he emphasizes, "and go out singly in pursuit of bears; we should organize a large and lively hunting party, drive the animals together, and throw a
melinite bomb into their midst."
