The JugglerThe Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a "decadent" novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Vallette Eymery (1860 1953), who used the pseudonym Rachilde, was a prolific novelist (over sixty works of fiction), playwright, literary critic and reviewer, and a forceful presence in French literary society of her time. The protagonist of the novel, Eliante Donalger, is in some sense an exaggerated double for her creator bizarre in appearance,