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VERLAINE, Paul (1844-1896). Autograph manuscript, ‘Simon, ah j’oubliais, il est mort …’, a draft of the opening lines of his uncompleted verse drama Vive le Roy!, n.d. 14 lines, including a number of cancellations and emendations, on one page, 8vo, on the verso of a leaf, the recto bearing a manuscript poem by Gabriel Drageon, a sonnet (‘Celle qui m’aime’) inscribed ‘A mon cher maître Paul Verlaine. Hommage de profonde admiration’ (Drageon’s poem lightly cancelled, later inscription at lower margin below Verlaine’s manuscript).
Vive le Roy, published posthumously in La Plume (Paris, 1897) as a ‘Fragment inédit et complet d’un drame inachevé de Paul Verlaine’, takes the form of a soliloquy by the imprisoned boy-king Louis XVII in his cell in the Temple prison in Paris. The ‘Simon’ referred to is Louis’s sometime guardian, the shoemaker Antoine Simon, who was guillotined on 28 July 1794, barely a year before the death of the ten-year old Louis. The first 6 ½ lines of the present draft show a number of differences from the published version, whilst the remaining lines are apparently unpublished.
Vive le Roy, published posthumously in La Plume (Paris, 1897) as a ‘Fragment inédit et complet d’un drame inachevé de Paul Verlaine’, takes the form of a soliloquy by the imprisoned boy-king Louis XVII in his cell in the Temple prison in Paris. The ‘Simon’ referred to is Louis’s sometime guardian, the shoemaker Antoine Simon, who was guillotined on 28 July 1794, barely a year before the death of the ten-year old Louis. The first 6 ½ lines of the present draft show a number of differences from the published version, whilst the remaining lines are apparently unpublished.