Paris, Albin Michel, 304 pages.
[As paradoxical as it may seem, I believe that Rimbaud’s and Verlaine’s connection has so far been very poorly studied in terms of its nature and deeper meaning. Until 1930, the question that agitated exegetes was that of homosexuality or Platonism; when the publication of the Dullaert dossier]…[vindicated Marcel Coulon]…[all Rimbaldians seemed to feel that, since this question had been settled once and for all, that of the relationship between the two men had been exhausted at the same time].
“So, everything is explained”, cried the Rimbaldists and Verlainians in chorus, when the proof of the two poets’ physical relationship was brought to light. “The real problem arises now,” Françoise replies in this essay.