Abbé Joseph-Antoine Boullan (

Saint-Porquier Saint-Porquier (; oc, Sent Porquièr) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. See also *Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department The following is a list of the 195 communes of the Tarn-et ...

Tarn-et-Garonne Tarn-et-Garonne (; oc, Tarn e Garona ) is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its name. The area was originally part of the former provinces of Quercy and ...

, 18 February 1824 – 4 January 1893,

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) was a French Roman Catholic priest who was later

laicized In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the removal of a bishop, priest, or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy. The t ...

, and was often accused of being a Satanist although he continued to defend his status as a Christian. He was a friend and inspiration of the writer

Joris-Karl Huysmans Charles-Marie-Georges Huysmans (, ; 5 February 1848 – 12 May 1907) was a French novelist and art critic who published his works as Joris-Karl Huysmans (, variably abbreviated as J. K. or J.-K.). He is most famous for the novel '' À rebour ...

. Lucie-Smith, Edward. (1972) ''Symbolist Art''. London: Thames & Hudson, p. 110. Huysmans with

Henri Antoine Jules-Bois Henri Antoine Jules-Bois (or simply Jules Bois; 29 September 1868, Marseille – 2 July 1943, New York), was a French writer with an interest in the occult. He wrote ''Le Satanisme et la magie'' (''Satanism and Magic''). He was a noted f ...

supported Boullan in a celebrated occultist feud with the Marquis Stanislas de Guaita. Boullan is mentioned in '' The Prague Cemetery'', the novel by

Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel ''The Name of th ...

.Umberto Eco raconte "Le cimetière de Prague"
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