Occult Paris : the lost magic of the Belle Époque / Tobias Churton.

Rochester, Vermont : Inner Traditions, [2016]

xvii, 493 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

"Memories weigh more than stone" : Edmond Bailly's Bookshop 1888 -- The build up -- Meetings with remarkable men -- Theosophy and the tradition -- Stanislas de Guaita -- The Sâr -- The Kabbalistic order of the Rose-Cross -- Papus -- Rosicrucial differences -- The salon of the century -- The Boullan affair -- Satie and Debussy : moved by the Gnosis -- The Gnostic church -- How to become a magus : The Rose-Croix salons 1893-1897 -- The Martinist order -- The boys move in -- To the end with Papus -- The legacy : a forgotten dream.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-478) and index.