Is there a double inside me?

In search of the fin-de-siècle

At the Gustave Moreau Museum in Paris there is a huge painting: Les chimères. Subtitled the Satanic Decamerone, its subject is the passions, whims and desires of women. The bodies that surge forth and voluptuously intertwine around each other are accompanied by wonders, the manifestations of their fantasies: the chimeras. Les chimères was never complete…