Over the course of 24 hours, on a Spring day in Paris in 1893, seven archetypal figures of the “Yellow Nineties”—a priest, a Symbolist, a dandy, an actress, a whore, a diabolist, and a Decadent—drift into and out of each other’s lives, sometimes taking center stage, other times assuming bit parts. The resulting narrative mosaic created by these seven interwoven tales can thus be described as both the summation and the reflection of late 19th-century Parisian Decadentism re-mannered as a Neo-Decadent novel.