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What position did Paul Verlaine hold during the Paris Commune?
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Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
During the period when insurrectionists seized power and established the Paris Commune, Paul Verlaine served as a press officer under their council.1