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Which poem did Paul Verlaine send to Victor Hugo when he was 14?
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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.
When Paul Verlaine was 14 years old, he sent his first extant poem, titled "La Mort," to the poet Victor Hugo.1