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Article: There's No Poetry in Depiction of Verlaine, Rimbaud
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 3, 1995
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Arthur Rimbaud Leonardo DiCaprio
Paul Verlaine David Thewlis
Mathilde Verlaine Romane Bohringer
Isabelle Rimbaud Dominique Blanc
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There is a story, perhaps true, that when Bennett Cerf visited James
Joyce in Paris, he told Nora Joyce, "Your husband is a great man."
To which Nora replied, "You don't have to live with the bloody
fool."
Mathilde Verlaine, wife of the French poet Paul Verlaine,
might have used the same words - in French, ...