Glory Pulling Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle Adam From His Eternal Sleep

A committee was formed to plan a larger tomb monument,[1] with Jean Richepin as its president and Auguste Blaizot as its treasurer.

A sculpture was presented to the Salon des artistes français in 1907,[4] showing a nude woman tearing open Villiers de l'Isle Adam's coffin.

She calls herself Tullia Fabriana, Claire Lenoir, Ellen, Morgane, Sara, Akédysséril ; a unique woman, in both senses of the word.

[7][8] However, other members of the committee were more critical - René Martineau wrote:[9][8] Brou, whose quite limited talent was that of a realist, brought back with much effort a fantastical conception of Bloy at an exhibition all the more sinister for giving him his exact proportions.

He stood up a real coffin, in front of which is a lifesize nude woman, unpinning with an inexpert hand the topmost planks of the funerary engine from which a pomaded bust of Villiers, almost-smiling, not ironically - alas!