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I've completely skipped these Rimbaud publications, so I'm starting Rimbaud's month with one month delay... I completely understand your emotions at seeing Arthur Rimbaud's few belongings up close. In the Musée de la Guerre 14-18 in Douaumont, I saw the trunk of a French author, Louis Pergaud, known for his book The War of the Buttons, a novel of my twelfth year, which I read and reread a lot in my childhood. He died in the war and his trunk was later found. It had knitted sock and balaclavas, a cute pink box of "Chinese biscuits", a few other items of clothing and others. It was very moving. And the stitches you noticed are a reminder of how individual pieces of clothes were so much more important before. It didn't matter that he wasn't a skilled sewer, he needed to keep his things for as long as he could. Thank you for sharing this moving detail.

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