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Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.
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The Camden terrace where Rimbaud and Verlaine lived in 1873, before the shot in Brussels.
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The two poets took a room at 8 Royal College Street in May 1873, aged nineteen and twenty-nine, having fled Paris; they taught French, walked the docks, drank in Camden and quarrelled, and it was from here that Verlaine stormed out in July, after Rimbaud laughed at him for carrying a herring, to the Brussels hotel room where he shot him in the wrist. Rimbaud drafted much of Une Saison en Enfer in London. A plaque marks the house, and the street is otherwise ordinary, which was rather the point.
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