Voyage in France by a Frenchman by Paul Verlaine ( Voyage en France par un Fran ??? ais ) was written in 1881, but only published posthumously for the first time in 1907. From the preface by Louis Loviot: " Voyage in France by a Frenchman has remained unknown to Verlaine biographers; the title itself can be found mentioned only on the liminary page of the first edition of Sagesse , published by Palm???, in 1881... It seems surprising that Poor L???lian, always without two nickles to rub together, should have held on ...
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Voyage in France by a Frenchman by Paul Verlaine ( Voyage en France par un Fran ??? ais ) was written in 1881, but only published posthumously for the first time in 1907. From the preface by Louis Loviot: " Voyage in France by a Frenchman has remained unknown to Verlaine biographers; the title itself can be found mentioned only on the liminary page of the first edition of Sagesse , published by Palm???, in 1881... It seems surprising that Poor L???lian, always without two nickles to rub together, should have held on to the pages of a piece of writing without trying to draw some profit from them... [the] violent, reactionary pamphlet elaborated around 1880, during the time of mystical renaissance in which were composed the verses of sweet piety comprising the collection Sagesse , which Voyage in France is the virulent paraphrase of... [these] refound pages ... offer a psychological document of the most singular kind and can serve to comment on and explain certain pages of Sagesse and of Bonheur ."
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