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Ballade touchant un point d'histoire : autograph manuscript poem: Paris, 1887 Dec. 18.

BIB_ID
118999
Accession number
MA 7103.5
Creator
Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896.
Display Date
1887 Dec. 18.
Credit line
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection. Gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p.), bound ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph manuscript poems by Paul Verlaine. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
The printed text indicates it was dedicated to "Anatole France."
Written from the hospital Broussais in Paris.
Written on the verso of stationery printed with "LE DECADENT / Directeur : A. Baju / 54, bd. de la Chapelle / Paris."
Provenance
The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection.
Summary
Being three 8-line stanzas and one 4-line stanza.