Paul Verlaine
Person Born 30/3/1844 Died 8/1/1896
Categories: Poetry
French poet. Born Metz, France. Has been described as an ugly, homicidal alcoholic. Following his imprisonment for attempted murder of Rimbaud in Brussels (see BrusselsRemembers|M|0138|bxl]), he was released in January 1875. He returned to Britain, and ended up as a schoolmaster in Stickney, a village near Grimsby in Lincolnshire. No plaque, apparently, but Verlaine does appear in one of the school photographs. Died Paris.
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