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VERLAINE (Paul). 1844-1896. Ecrivain poète.
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VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)
MANUSCRIPT autograph, Epitaph, [1886]| 1 page in-8 on graph paper, in red ink with a large cross drawn (slit repaired).
Draft epitaph to open the Memoirs of a Widower.
It was in 1886 that Verlaine published his Memoirs of a Widower (Léon Vanier, 1866), while his ex-wife, Mathilde Mauté, remarried on October 30, 1886. This "Epitaph" was to appear at the head of the book, as shown by the title Mémoires d'un veuf (Memoirs of a Widower) crossed out in the upper right-hand corner of our manuscript, but was removed from it| it was published in 1929, with variants, in volume II of the Posthumous Works.
Inscribed in a cross, like a tombstone, it is like an epitaph to the former wife.
"Here lies who was a daughter of whom nothing is said, a vague wife, an unconscious mother.
In her lifetime she was called:
THE CERTAMENTAL PRINCESS She almost put two men [Verlaine and Rimbaud] to the test. Why did she do that? Was harmful to poets. Who was it bad for?
Spent the rest of her days visiting, partying and dancing with perverted bourgeois.
Faith was indifferent to him, Hope unknown and Charity a dead letter.
Kleptomaniac, moreover. She died an absurd death, without the sign of the Cross, but in her shadow, for the Mercy of God is infinite."
In a note stuck to the bottom of the sheet, Verlaine explains: "Latin word in French-Greek inflection. Certamen, combat.
Certamen, combative. "Woman of quarrel." (V. Parallel)"
On the back, in the hand of the publisher Léon Vanier, draft of a collection of Verlaine's proses, with a list of titles (and numbers for calibration): Fairy Tale 7, Extreme Unction 4, The Drop 2, Ægri somnia 4, [...] My Hospices 3"...
MANUSCRIPT autograph, Epitaph, [1886]| 1 page in-8 on graph paper, in red ink with a large cross drawn (slit repaired).
Draft epitaph to open the Memoirs of a Widower.
It was in 1886 that Verlaine published his Memoirs of a Widower (Léon Vanier, 1866), while his ex-wife, Mathilde Mauté, remarried on October 30, 1886. This "Epitaph" was to appear at the head of the book, as shown by the title Mémoires d'un veuf (Memoirs of a Widower) crossed out in the upper right-hand corner of our manuscript, but was removed from it| it was published in 1929, with variants, in volume II of the Posthumous Works.
Inscribed in a cross, like a tombstone, it is like an epitaph to the former wife.
"Here lies who was a daughter of whom nothing is said, a vague wife, an unconscious mother.
In her lifetime she was called:
THE CERTAMENTAL PRINCESS She almost put two men [Verlaine and Rimbaud] to the test. Why did she do that? Was harmful to poets. Who was it bad for?
Spent the rest of her days visiting, partying and dancing with perverted bourgeois.
Faith was indifferent to him, Hope unknown and Charity a dead letter.
Kleptomaniac, moreover. She died an absurd death, without the sign of the Cross, but in her shadow, for the Mercy of God is infinite."
In a note stuck to the bottom of the sheet, Verlaine explains: "Latin word in French-Greek inflection. Certamen, combat.
Certamen, combative. "Woman of quarrel." (V. Parallel)"
On the back, in the hand of the publisher Léon Vanier, draft of a collection of Verlaine's proses, with a list of titles (and numbers for calibration): Fairy Tale 7, Extreme Unction 4, The Drop 2, Ægri somnia 4, [...] My Hospices 3"...