Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and a gunshot in Brussels On 17 April 1873, the Paris police wanted information about a man named Paul Verlaine. He was twenty-nine years old, had once worked at the Hôtel de Ville, had remained at his post during the Paris Commune, and had recently been moving between France, Belgium andContinue reading “The Poet in the Police File”
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Thomas Savage
Thomas Savage — Prisoner 4193 There is something unsettling about the photograph. A boy stands stiffly in front of the camera. He is wearing a dark coat and scarf. Around his neck hangs a wooden board carrying a number: 4193. His name was Thomas Savage. The surviving record from Wandsworth Gaol tells us that ThomasContinue reading “Thomas Savage”
