The Jews were not decadents, themselves. In this instalment, she focuses on musical settings of poems by French Decadents. The Decadents (later changed to 'The Decadent' ) with Jill Emery, from 1978-1982. Other such decadents were Epicureans, Christians, Pascal, and Flaubert. Like the Decadents, his work often combines religious and erotic imagery. Some of them triumphantly adopted the name, referring to themselves as Decadents. In the 1880s, a group of French writers referred to themselves as Decadents.