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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The Baron at the Prince of Wales Hotel
A Spaniard, a Swiss hotelkeeper, and the question of becoming British On 1 June 1835, a man sitting in the Prince of Wales Hotel in Leicester Place, just off Leicester Square, began a letter. “My Lord, Being desirous of applying to Parliament for an Act of Naturalization…” His name was Baron de Arabet. He hadContinue reading “The Baron at the Prince of Wales Hotel”
