Famed and highly influential French poet (1844-1896) who penned Poèmes saturniens and Romances sans paroles; likewise remembered for his tumultuous love affair with the prodigiously gifted teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud. ALS in French, signed “P. Verlaine,” one page, 4 x 6.25, June 5, 1894. Letter to the Paris Review, in part (translated): "Could you give the last issue of the Paris Review to the person who will give you that word." At the bottom, he gives his address: "187 rue St Jacques." In very good to fine condition, with scattered foxing.
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