Esthètes et magiciens: l'art fin de siècle (1969), which treated all the media and not just art, was a success and was translated into English as Dreamers of Decadence in 1971. In between these works, Jullian published one of the first re-evaluations of the work of the so-called French Decadent artists, the movement now known as Symbolism.
These included Robert de Montesquiou, Oscar Wilde, and D'Annunzio. In the course of the following years he published a number of writer's biographies which earned him the respect of the literary community. During the late 1950's he wrote under the reversed form of his name, "Julian Philip." He wrote his first art book, a biography of Delacroix, in 1963. His first published book, Dictionnaire du snobisme appeared in the same year as its English translation, the Snob Spotter's Guide in 1958. Jullian studied at the Sorbonne, but lacked the discipline to finish. His whole life, he was part of the Society world which he both criticized and belonged. At age eight he took his mother's family name of Jullian. His grandfather was the historian Camille Jullian (1859-1933) and his father André Simounet, a military officer.
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