La bonne chanson

Name: La Bonne Chanson
Author: Paul Verlaine

La Bonne Chanson

Author

Paul Verlaine

Language

French

Year

1870

Country

France

Genre

Poetry Collection

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impressionism 🚗modernism

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love

La Bonne Chanson is a collection of poems written by Paul Verlaine from the winter of 1869 to the spring of 1870. Twenty-one poems belong to this group, and are addressed to sixteen-year-old Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville, whom he married in the same year (1870).

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Translations

One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

tr. Norman R. Shapiro · University of Chicago Press · United States · 2000

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