Daumal 3

A brief history

Rene Daumal was born March 16, 1908, in the small town of Boulzicourt, near the Ardennes Mountains, as Rimbaud before him. I have stood on the street of his childhood. One can envision his mother waiting by the door for the milk to be delivered from a horse cart. There, walking hand in hand, is young Rene and his paternal grandfather; a beekeeper, heale…