Verlaine et Rimbaud Verlaine et Rimbaud Verlaine et Rimbaud (English: ""Verlaine and Rimbaud"") is an album by Léo Ferré. It was released in 1964 by Barclay Records. This album is one of the first studio double albums in popular music history (before Bob Dylan's or Frank Zappa's). "Verlaine et Rimbaud" is Ferré's third LP entirely dedicated to a poet, after Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal" (""Flowers of Evil"") in 1957 and "Les Chansons d'Aragon" (""Songs of Aragon"") in 1961. Here, Ferré sets into music 10 poems from Arthur Rimbaud and 14 from Paul Verlaine. He considers their two different kind of poetry as
Gaius Memmius (poet) Gaius Memmius (poet) Gaius Memmius (died circa 49 BC, incorrectly called Gemellus, "The Twin") was a Roman orator and poet. He was Tribune of the Plebs (66 BC), patron of Lucretius and an acquaintance of Catullus and Helvius Cinna. At first a strong supporter of Pompey, he quarrelled with him, and went over to Caesar, whom he had previously attacked. In 54, as candidate for the consulship, he lost Caesar's support by revealing a scandalous transaction in which he and his fellow candidate had been implicated. Being subsequently condemned for illegal practices at the election, he withdrew to Athens, and