Les Papillons Noirs -
It describes "sinister black butterflies" that have blotted out the sun and descended from the sky to feast on human souls, representing a deep, suffocating depression. 4. Contemporary Children's Literature
This is currently the most popular reference. It is a French series (available on Netflix in many regions) about a struggling novelist, Adrien Winckler, who is hired to write the memoirs of an elderly man named Albert Desiderio. Les papillons noirs
The term is famously used in the poem (Night) from Albert Giraud's cycle Pierrot Lunaire (1884), later set to music by Arnold Schoenberg. It describes "sinister black butterflies" that have blotted