Which critic used the term 'bizarreries cubiques' in 1908 to describe Braque's paintings?

Louis Vauxcelles used the phrase “bizarreries cubiques” in discussing Georges Braque’s geometric paintings.

Vauxcelles was a prominent French art critic whose writing helped shape the early public vocabulary of Cubism. In his commentary on Braque, he emphasized the artist’s reduction of landscapes, houses, and figures into geometric forms resembling cubes.

There is a date nuance behind this question. Vauxcelles discussed Braque’s cube-like forms in a 1908 review, while the exact phrase “bizarreries cubiques” is commonly cited from his March 25, 1909, review of Braque’s work at the Salon des Indépendants. The identity of the critic is nevertheless unambiguous.

Vauxcelles is also often associated with the early popularization of the word “Cubism,” although the movement’s terminology developed gradually among critics and artists. He did not invent the artistic method; Picasso and Braque were already developing the visual language that critics attempted to describe.