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PAUL VERLAINE
(1844 - 1896)
POET
Airmail
cover, postmarked, Paris, 25 January 1952.
Arthur
Rimbaud
Infatuated
with Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine deserted his wife.
The
two men quarreled frequently, and during one of these bouts
Arthur
was shot, resulting in a two year jail sentence for Verlaine.
Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983
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