Un cas stylistique dans la production de Verlaine conteur Conte de fées. Une esthétique du mal écrit ?

The article studies Verlaine prose-writer's affinities with the écriture artiste of his time. His very short Conte de fées (1888) presents syntactic boldnesses of a maybe unique level in his entire works: badly written according to the academic canons, the text lets dream about a new poetic language.