1873, after a stay in London with Rimbaud, Verlaine, on July 3 decided to break up and left his friend without a penny in London to try to reconnect with Mathilde. Verlaine called Rimbaud, who arrived in Brussels on 8 July.
On July 10, during another violent argument, Verlaine fired two shots at her young friend. Rimbaud was injured on his wrist and Verlaine and his mother took him to the hospital. Madame Verlaine persuaded her son to let Rimbaud go.
On the way to the station, Verlaine puts her hand in the pocket where there is her gun. Rimbaud is scared and takes refuge with a police officer. Rimbaud refused to press charges but the police tried Verlaine and he was sentenced to two years in prison. It is from his prison that he composes this poem.
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“Finally! Do you want me to kiss you while I’m dying?” Verlaine’s phrase remained famous, which he addressed to Rimbaud in a letter stating that he was ready to “burn his face”. Her lover – 17 years old at the time – rushes to Brussels and here as in London, resuming the arguments and the almost permanent drunkenness.
On July 10, 1873, Paul Verlaine entered Montigny, an armoury in the city centre, at 9 a.m., where he bought, for 23 francs, a six shots of the Lefaucheux brand, a small gun with a wooden lacrosse, as the bourgeois paid at the time.
A few hours later, rather drunk, he found his young lover in their room, who told him that he was leaving him. Verlaine then allegedly fired the gun and fired two bullets, shouting to Rimbaud: “So much for you, since you are leaving.” The poet was wounded in the arm, Verlaine sentenced to two years in prison. It has to be said that the pederasty aggravates the crime further and that he is known to have engaged with the Communards – he is often said to be cowardly.
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The weapon with which Verlaine shot Rimbaud sold at auction 434 500 euros
How do you stop “the man with the soles of the wind”? Paul Verlaine, 29 years old, sissy lover, wounded lover, can no longer, on this day of July 1873. The passion for Rimbaud, ten years his junior, whom he met 2 years earlier consumes him. He wishes to return to his wife Mathilde whom he met in 1870. Rimbaud is just as jealous as Verlaine. Then the author of the Saturnian Poems goes into exile in Belgium. Rimbaud joins him. After an umpteenth quarrel, on July 10, 1873, Verlaine became excited. He buys a gun and shoots the young poet, who is only 18 years old, in a hotel room on Rue des Brasseurs in Brussels.
More ink than blood will be spilled in this quarrel
Rimbaud is injured on the wrist, it is superficial. As Le Monde writes, “Fortunately, this quarrel has caused more ink than blood to flow.” The gun with which Paul Verlaine shot his lover Arthur Rimbaud was put up for auction on Wednesday, November 30 in Paris, by the famous Christie’s house. Estimated at between EUR 50 000 and EUR 60 000, it was finally awarded at EUR 434 500. The buyer remained anonymous, his bids having taken place by telephone. The revolver sold is a six-shot, 7-millimetre Lefaucheux model.
The weapon with which Verlaine shot Rimbaud sold at auction 434 500 euros
How do you stop “the man with the soles of the wind”? Paul Verlaine, 29 years old, sissy lover, wounded lover, can no longer, on this day of July 1873. The passion for Rimbaud, ten years his junior, whom he met 2 years earlier consumes him. He wishes to return to his wife Mathilde whom he met in 1870. Rimbaud is just as jealous as Verlaine. Then the author of the Saturnian Poems goes into exile in Belgium. Rimbaud joins him. After an umpteenth quarrel, on July 10, 1873, Verlaine became excited. He buys a gun and shoots the young poet, who is only 18 years old, in a hotel room on Rue des Brasseurs in Brussels.
More ink than blood will be spilled in this quarrel
Rimbaud is injured on the wrist, it is superficial. As Le Monde writes, “Fortunately, this quarrel has caused more ink than blood to flow.” The gun with which Paul Verlaine shot his lover Arthur Rimbaud was put up for auction on Wednesday, November 30 in Paris, by the famous Christie’s house. Estimated at between EUR 50 000 and EUR 60 000, it was finally awarded at EUR 434 500. The buyer remained anonymous, his bids having taken place by telephone. The revolver sold is a six-shot, 7-millimetre Lefaucheux model.
« The sky is over the roof so blue so quiet
a tree over the roof cradles its palm
the bell in the sky that you gently see sings
a bird on the tree that you see sings its complaint
my god life is there simple and quiet
this rumour that goes up comes from the city
say what have you done that is from your youth? »
Paul Verlaine
Where he served his two-year prison sentence (released for good behaviour and expelled from Belgium on 16 January 1875, he did not do it in full).
a simple description of what Verlaine sees and hears behind the bars of his window. He sees this and life becomes simple and quiet.
There is no longer the other, seeing him in the impossible life who never ceases to see anything else, to see life differently since he has known his enlightenment and his encounters with the supernatural who lives in us and around us.
“You are here,” is it Paul, is it still Arthur? Is it Paul who lost his youth because he too did not become a supernatural seer? Is it Arthur whose stubbornness to follow his poetic path nourished by dialogues of the soul for the soul leads him to an ever stronger revolt against this world and those people who do not see, do not want to see, are afraid of this light that lives in us and allows us to cross the shaft of light to arrive at our home in the land of the seers, in heaven, this sky that is no longer so calm blue, where it Is there no bell tower, no bird to sing his complaint and accompany the complaint of the blind poet?
What is higher than this bird’s sky?
My God, the lives of the simple people so quiet are here and his rumour is rising from the city. No voice is coming down from the sky for Verlaine, it was probably younger than her ear, her heart could have heard it.
of this age during which the human being seeks his life and fiercely interjects all that surrounds him. Didn’t you ask god? You didn’t force the meeting with the one who animates your soul and who is the source of your poetry? Did you write poems without looking for your source?
You don’t even know how to climb up into the sky to sing your complaint at least as loud as the bird that is!
And then there’s this nagging and terrible question for Verlaine, the adult facing her teenage friend burning her youth: say, Verlaine, what have you done with your youth so that it is not the same and poetic, so full of enlightenment as that of Arthur Rimbaud?
What did you miss Verlaine in your poetic approach? Why didn’t life fill you with the lights your fellow poet is talking about?
Should this omission, this mistake of youth, be paid for today by prison? Because and only because of him, who sees what you can’t see?
Yet from your prison cell, you see the sky above the roof…
“It cries in my heart as it rains on the city
what languor is penetrating my heart… ”
This poem is the continuation of this intimate dialogue of the poet.
Verlaine will cry and this will infuriate Rimbaud even more.
The seer doesn’t care about the whining and complaining of the blind. Arthur will answer: “My wisdom is as despised as chaos. What is my nothingness, with the stupor that awaits you “on the day of your death when you cannot cross the shaft of light and the envoy of darkness will take you?
The poems of forgotten Ariettes were sung by Pierre at the M.A.L (House of Arts and Recreation) in Strasbourg, at the Pont Saint-Martin, in the Petite-France district, during an evening organised long ago by André Pomarat and Eric de Dadelsen. In the room there was Jean-Paul Klée, Philippe who created the theatre of the young audience at the Renard Prêchant and so many others… including Françoise, the future wife of Pierre.
These poems by Verlaine, the forgotten Ariettes, in the novel “D’Éleusis à Dendérah, l’evolution ban” Pierre will sing them to Laurie during their stay in Paris.
For Peter, they beautifully illustrate the dilemma between the one who received the initiation and who was at the encounter and the one who cannot believe or would like to believe but does not know how.
Many visitors to this site may find themselves in this dilemma… one thing in the meantime: Rimbaud did not have a gun!
A seer doesn’t need weapons, but the one who is afraid, who doesn’t know what to do with his life, who recites rosaries to ask for help that he is unable to find alone in him, the one who carries guns and drags the streets with his hands on them, even next to a police officer near a station!
The contemporary poet no longer had to capitulate to the irresistible development of the industrial society like Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and so many others had to settle down to it before sinking into madness and a suicidal human life.
On the contrary, more than ever, our ardour will finally take us out of the industrial era, out of our systems of power, to find a flourishing period organised in networks and capable of restoring global knowledge capable of marrying the cultures of the peoples of our humanity…
To restore the functioning of the most flourishing civilisations in our humanity, to restore the right that they have used and that the rulers of the systems of power forbid us, to restore the use of our first source of knowledge and to develop again the paths to our initiation and encounter with the mysteries of life, to practise again the dialogue of the soul for living by seeing, more than a matter of gun, bombs and missiles This is the raison d’être, the essential mission of education, the most powerful weapon to change the world!
Verlaine was responsible for publishing the collection “Les Illuminations” which Rimbaud entrusted to him in Stuttgart in 1875. This collection, amalgama of 46 poems in prose and verse, was published by Gustave Kahn and Félix Fénéon, who was its masterpiece. The “Publications de La Vogue” by Léon Vanier, publisher of Paul Verlaine, published the complete collection in October 1886 while Rimbaud was in Abyssinia.
From then on these texts will be available to discerning readers of Light and Life, following “wind soles”. They are part of our education in poetic writing, a direct way of the soul’s dialogue for the soul towards our own enlightenment and encounter with the mysteries of life.
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