Illustration by Gustave Dore for 'Le Capitaine Fracasse' by Pierre Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)

Illustration by Gustave Dore for 'Le Capitaine Fracasse' by Pierre Theophile Gautier (1811-1872)French, Writer, poet, painter, art critic. Gautier was a defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) is an 1863 novel by the French writer Theophile Gautier. It is an adventure novel set in the seventeenth century. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)