 It was largely through the activities of "La Vogue", a weekly journal founded by Gustave Kahn, as well as the appearance of a band of poets unequalled at any one time in the history of French poetry.Their style of poetry was dubbed ‘Counter-Romanticism’ and it was led by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Laforgue and Corbière.It was concerned with synaethesis (the harmony or equilibrium of sensation) and later described as "the moment when French poetry began to take consciousness of itself as poetry."