Louis de Fourcaud

He began his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he learned to play the cello.

He was also a student of the historian Jules Quicherat, at the École Nationale des Chartes.

His colleagues dubbed him "Salonard" (snob, or fop); a name he officially adopted in 1877.

After 1879, he was an independent contributor to La Revue wagnérienne and, later, was a staff member at Le Clairon, a short-lived pro-royalist newspaper.

In 1913, not long before his death, he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, taking Seat# 8 in the "Unattached" section.