Paul VERLAINE. [Official acts relating to the divorce from h - Lot 33

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Paul VERLAINE. [Official acts relating to the divorce from h - Lot 33
Paul VERLAINE. [Official acts relating to the divorce from his wife]. Compte-rendu d'audience du 24 avril 1874. 4 handwritten sheets. - Compte-rendu d'audience du 6 août 1874. One manuscript leaf. In-4, black basane, smooth spine with long title, interior roulette (Period binding). Very interesting document relating to the divorce of Paul Verlaine and his wife Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville (named in the document Marie Sophie Marie Manté, by mistake of the clerk). All the pages are written on stamped paper. The first four pages, written on both sides, are dated May 2, 1874. The minutes of the hearing of April 24, 1874 summarize the facts of the case; Mathilde Mauté's request for separation from her husband Paul Verlaine. It sets out all Mathilde Mauté's arguments, defended by Maître Magnier assisted by his solicitor Maître Guyot, as well as the response of Maître Pérard, solicitor representing Verlaine. Verlaine. We learn that Paul Verlaine and Mathilde Mauté had married on August 11, 1870, that a child had been born of their union on October 30, 1871, that the poet had changed his ways a few months after their marriage, that he had indulged in drink and absinthe, that he had made the acquaintance of an S. Arthur Rimbaud and that facts of the most monstrous immorality had been revealed to the Plaintiff. This is followed by a description of Verlaine's conduct and antics, which are more those of an assiduous cabaret-goer than a future family man. This is all the more true given that when the child was born some time later, Verlaine, overcome by drink, suddenly seized his child and threw him violently onto the bed, risking his life. The document also sets out all the proceedings that have taken place since the first application for legal separation in February 1872, followed by the defense's submissions that the Tribunal should: Declare Madame Verlaine purely and simply inadmissible, and in any case ill-founded, and dismiss her case. And order her to pay the costs. This document concludes with the questions of law to be answered by the Tribunal. The second document is the judgment of the Seine Civil Court of 1st instance ordering Verlaine, currently detained at the Maison de Sûreté in Mons (Belgium), to pay costs amounting to 428 francs and 24 centimes. These two documents come from the office of Maître Pérard, to whom they were served by a bailiff. A typed version of the first deed is attached.
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