In their correspondence of spring 1873, Rimbaud and Verlaine quote the city of Bouillon, whose name they sometimes spell wrongly (Boulion) or whimsically (Boglione). Hypothesis: the poets may have been amused by phonological features proper to Belgian francophones.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques