Upstairs at the Rimbaud museum, this old mill located on the banks of the Meuse, in Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes), a triptych display case sits in the middle of a room plunged into darkness.
Lighting highlights the three new manuscripts.
Treasures that delight the museum director, Carole Marquet-Morelle.
“The choice of paper, the words used... We enter into the poet's intimacy thanks to these letters, sometimes slightly stained or creased by use.
In the one he addresses to his mother, Rimbaud confesses the first symptoms of his illness,” she explains.
Presented for the first time to the public, and free of charge, until this Sunday evening, February 18, the two letters from the native of Charleville-Mézières and the poem “What holds Nina back”, copied by hand by Paul Verlaine, will then be restored before returning to the museum windows on June 1st.
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