Meanings of french decadence in English

Huysmans's fuck you to humanity marked his break with the naturalist movement, and the apex of French decadence.

Things changed when Théophile Gautier made tribadism a fashionable feature of French decadence, and Baudelaire reminded the world that it all started on Lesbos.

Three years in the making, it was intended as a thinly veiled critique of what Couture saw as the French decadence of his own time.

Putting any ridiculous ideas of French decadence aside, the France of the last ten years did not have the international standing of an older France.