Jean Stanislas Jules Boissiere (Hérault Clermont, Hanoi 1863, 1897). After publishing his first collection of poems, Devant L'Énigme, in 1883, settled in Paris, where he worked in the socialist newspaper La Justice and continues its poetic work as a recognized disciple of Mallarme. Three years later delivery to press Provensa, his second book of poems, before leaving for Indochina as a colonial official. Upon arrival in Tonkin performed military service in the Tenth Mountain Hunters, experience that will reflect on many pages of the stories that make up smoking opium and Propos d'un intoxiqué (published posthumously in 1911), autobiographical text in exposing the vicissitudes of his addiction to opium. His meteoric rise in the hierarchy of the colonial bureaucracy will be cut short by his untimely death in 1897, at thirty-four years.