Paul Verlaine

Paul Verlaine was born in Metz on 30 March 1844, the son of an army officer. Employed at the Paris Hôtel de Ville, he lost his post after taking part in the Commune. Married in August 1870 to Mathilde Mauté, he became close the following year to Arthur Rimbaud, whom he followed to England and then to Belgium; in July 1873, in Brussels, he wounded him with a gunshot and was imprisoned. Released in 1875, having returned to Catholicism, he taught in England and then at Rethel. Proclaimed prince of poets in 1894, he died in Paris on 8 January 1896.

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• PoetryPoems Under SaturnPoëmes saturniensPaul Verlaine · 1866LiteraturePublic domain