Beside the front door there is a simple plaque: "The French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived here May-July 1873". The words can't begin to do justice to the slice of turbulent history ...

The poets are Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, and the fate that they, or their remains—or if you are a romantic, as they were, their ghosts—face is whether they should be moved into the ...

Steinmetz has a poet’s tolerance of the excesses and bad behavior of colleagues, and he is refreshingly nonjudgmental about the Verlaine and Rimbaud affair. He does, however, make some ...

Arthur Rimbaud was portrayed in this Jef Rosman painting in his bed after Verlaine had lightly wounded him President Emmanuel Macron is under pressure to strike a blow for sexual diversity by ...

Certainly not the legendary Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, who brandished a 7mm six-shooter at his teenage lover, the infamous bad boy of French letters, Arthur Rimbaud, as the two argued in a ...

A prodigy of literature, he later fled from his home to Paris, spending some time with Paul Verlaine. The story of Rimbaud's life has been made into an original musical, having its first ...

It was used by Rimbaud's lover, fellow French poet Paul Verlaine, during a heated argument between the pair in Brussels on 10 July 1873. The revolver sold for more than seven times the estimate ...

It all started with a portrait of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, drawn in 1872 by his fellow writer and companion Paul Verlaine. The picture is well known in France as the frontispiece of Rimbaud’s ...

Rimbaud and Verlaine are certainly among the most revered of French poets - and it is also true that of the 75 residents of the Pantheon, none is there for poetry. Victor Hugo was transferred for ...