 Fauré suffered from poor health in his later years, brought on in part by heavy smoking.Despite this, he remained available to young composers, including members of Les Six, most of whom were devoted to him.Nectoux writes, "In old age he attained a kind of serenity, without losing any of his remarkable spiritual vitality, but rather removed from the sensualism and the passion of the works he wrote between 1875 and 1895."