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VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)
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VERLAINE PAUL (1844-1896)
Exceptional autograph letter signed to Léon DESCHAMPS about the death of Charles BAUDELAIRE. Paris, October 19, 1890, one page in-8 in black ink in a tight handwriting with minimal erasures and corrections, tears on the upper right edge.
Precious and very moving letter published as a "Tribune libre" in La Plume of November 15, 1890 under the title L'Enterrement de Baudelaire.
This letter was reprinted in Verlaine's posthumous OEuvres, published by Messein, and appears in his OEuvres en prose complètes,
Bibliothèque de La Pléiade, pp. 732-733.
Verlaine, then twenty-three years old, had in fact followed Baudelaire's funeral procession on September 2, 1867. He wrote down his first recollections the following September 7 in La France artistique. Verlaine's admiration for Baudelaire was immense. He was the true initiator of the first poetic generation that emerged from the author of the Flowers of Evil, who had with
Rimbaud and Mallarmé, his greatest successors.
"My dear Deschamps, While reading in your last issue the so elegant article by Cladel, I remembered a visit to Baudelaire's tomb that I made five years ago in company of Charles Morice. (...) we were soon able to melancholy and ratiocinate in front of the petty stele under which so much literary glory sleeps - and moreover, if you like, military... and diplomatic! Many years before, I, a young and dreamy man, had accompanied Baudelaire's coffin from the nursing home to the necropolis, passing by the tiny church where a small afternoon service was held. Publisher Lemerre and I were the first to walk behind the hearse, which was followed by Louis
Veuillot, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Asselineau and Théodore de Banville.
The last two said a few words of farewell. As the coffin was being lowered into the vault, the sky, which had been threatening all day, thundered, and a torrential downpour ensued. The absence at this sad funeral of Théophile Gautier, whom the
Master had loved so much, and of M. Leconte de Lisle, who professed to be his friend, was very noticeable, in spite of the relations, somewhat ironic on the part of
Baudelaire, which had existed between the deceased and the Creole bard. (...)"
Léon Deschamps was the director of the review "La Plume".
Exceptional autograph letter signed to Léon DESCHAMPS about the death of Charles BAUDELAIRE. Paris, October 19, 1890, one page in-8 in black ink in a tight handwriting with minimal erasures and corrections, tears on the upper right edge.
Precious and very moving letter published as a "Tribune libre" in La Plume of November 15, 1890 under the title L'Enterrement de Baudelaire.
This letter was reprinted in Verlaine's posthumous OEuvres, published by Messein, and appears in his OEuvres en prose complètes,
Bibliothèque de La Pléiade, pp. 732-733.
Verlaine, then twenty-three years old, had in fact followed Baudelaire's funeral procession on September 2, 1867. He wrote down his first recollections the following September 7 in La France artistique. Verlaine's admiration for Baudelaire was immense. He was the true initiator of the first poetic generation that emerged from the author of the Flowers of Evil, who had with
Rimbaud and Mallarmé, his greatest successors.
"My dear Deschamps, While reading in your last issue the so elegant article by Cladel, I remembered a visit to Baudelaire's tomb that I made five years ago in company of Charles Morice. (...) we were soon able to melancholy and ratiocinate in front of the petty stele under which so much literary glory sleeps - and moreover, if you like, military... and diplomatic! Many years before, I, a young and dreamy man, had accompanied Baudelaire's coffin from the nursing home to the necropolis, passing by the tiny church where a small afternoon service was held. Publisher Lemerre and I were the first to walk behind the hearse, which was followed by Louis
Veuillot, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Asselineau and Théodore de Banville.
The last two said a few words of farewell. As the coffin was being lowered into the vault, the sky, which had been threatening all day, thundered, and a torrential downpour ensued. The absence at this sad funeral of Théophile Gautier, whom the
Master had loved so much, and of M. Leconte de Lisle, who professed to be his friend, was very noticeable, in spite of the relations, somewhat ironic on the part of
Baudelaire, which had existed between the deceased and the Creole bard. (...)"
Léon Deschamps was the director of the review "La Plume".