Alexandre Séon (1855, Chazelles-sur-Lyon,

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– 1917, Paris) was a French Symbolist artist, illustrator and decorator. Séon studied at the Beaux-Arts of Lyon and Paris, becoming a student of Puvis de Chavannes in 1891, with whom he later collaborated. He was closely associated with Joséphin Péladan and his Salon de la Rose-Croix, and designed the frontispiece for Péladan's 1891 novel ''l'Androgyne''.Matthews, Patricia. ''Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender and French Symbolist Art.'' Page 2. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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