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Lucien Durosoir was always an assiduous reader of poetry; he preferred the Parnassians to the Romantics. He also read and re-read his favorite poets--Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Rimbaud--of which he owned several first editions. During the months spent in the muddy trenches of WWI, he often sought consolation from their works, which had been sent by his mother to the battlefront. In this way, he was able to while away the long hours of waiting, moral loneliness, and physical suffering. This third volume in a series from Ensemble Calliopée opens the doors to a more poetic Durosoir, in a language that engenders a sweet and romantic daydream