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“... up something more palpable and gone on to wring blood from it. Rimbaud didn’t see it that way. Michel Murat’s close, scholarly reading of the poems shows how blurred the phases of Rimbaud’s poetic career actually were, and how there were at least two modes on the go at any time. We tend to imagine them in serial evolution, each one signalling a ...”

“... of everyone else, everyone had a grudge against everyone else,’ the artists Bilel Chikri and Murat Arslan Rymo write in the exhibition catalogue. ‘That’s the risk. If you don’t decide at some point to get out of the neighbourhood and do something in Paris, you’re bound to end up staying there. That’s why, to this day, there are guys who are ...”

“... chroniclers, including Crane Brinton, André Castelot, Jean Orieux and the French politician Michel Poniatowski (not to mention the prolific historian Louis Madelin, to whose 1944 effort an American publisher appended the subtitle ‘A Vivid Biography of the Amoral, Unscrupulous and Fascinating French Statesman’). For authority and learning, it will be ...”