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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.
Paul Verlaine spent his final years in a state of decline, characterized by poverty and frequent hospitalizations. Following the deaths of his mother and his pupil Lucien Létinois, he abandoned efforts at "respectability" and relapsed into a life of drink and debauchery. During this period, he lived in shared lodgings with aging companions, such as Philomène Boudin and Eugénie Krantz. He eventually died in January 1896 while staying in the lodgings of Eugénie Krantz in Paris.1