In 1906 a group of French writers, artists and composers established the Abbaye de Creteil at a villa in Creteil south-east of Paris. The movement included the painters Albert Gleizes, Charles Berthold-Mahn and Jacques d'Otemar, the poets Charles Vildrac, Georges Duhamel, René Arcos, Alexandre Mercereau, Jules Romains, and Henri-Martin Barzun, the composer Albert Doyen, and the printer Lucien Linard. The group was partly inspired by the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais, who had written about a self-supporting commune in a monastery called the Abbaye de Thelema that had championed group labour and intellectual self-improvement. The Abbaye de Creteil community only lasted until February of 1908, yet in its brief existence it supported the work of Roger Allard, later to become a proponent of Cubism and the works of the leading French poet Pierre-Jean Jouve.