Author: VERLAINE, Paul
Title: François Coppée. (Les hommes d'aujourd'hui Nr. 253. With a portrait in colour by Emile Cohl).
Description: Paris, Vanier, [1885]. 29.2 x 19.9 cm. Folded leaf. 1st edition. Stain in top right corner (also visible inside), top slightly frayed, ex-libris stamp at the bottom of the back cover. Text by Paul Verlaine (in first edition), caricature by Emile Cohl. Added: François COPPÉE, Printed business card. 'François Coppée/ de l'Académie Française/ 12 rue Oudinot (VIIe)'. With a few words in manuscript: 'Merci de tout coeur./ Cordialement (...)'. Initialed ‘F.C.'. To be dated between 1884 and 1908. François Coppée (1842-1908), a man full of inner contradictions, was a member of the poètes Parnassiens. The Album Zutique, discovered in 1936, contains work by both Rimbaud and Coppée. The poetry of Rimbaud from the collection parodies specific poems by Coppée in a number of cases.

Keywords:


See more books from our catalog: 19th Century - 19e eeuw