On two unpublished verses of Verlaine in an interview with Jules Bois

This study draws attention to and explains two humorous verses that Verlaine is said to have recited during an interview with Jules Bois when hospitalized in 1895. It reproduces and briefly comments on the chapter in L’Au-delà et les forces inconnues devoted to Verlaine, and describes the career of its author, a young poet and journalist interested in the occult.