Rachilde in network or the art of the hang-up

If Rachilde did not leave her contemporaries indifferent, the role that she was recognised as playing in the world of the "petites revues" and the Parisian avant-garde at the end of the century was linked to the art of weaving relationships between people, milieus and periodicals. This article shows how central this art of raccroc was in the consolidation of the Mercure de France, through the cohesion of the decadent and symbolist groups and the construction of an essential social capital.