Editing Paul Verlaine (section)

===Early life=== 
Born in [[Metz]], Verlaine was educated at the ''Lycée Impérial Bonaparte'' (now the [[Lycée Condorcet]]) in Paris and then took up a post in the [[civil service]]. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the [[Parnassien]] movement and its leader, [[Leconte de Lisle]]. Verlaine's first published poem was published in 1863 in ''La Revue du progrès'', a publication founded by poet [[Louis-Xavier de Ricard]]. Verlaine was a frequenter of the salon of the Marquise de Ricard<ref>Shapiro, Norman R., ''One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine'', University of Chicago Press, 1999</ref> (Louis-Xavier de Ricard's mother) at 10 Boulevard des Batignolles and other social venues, where he rubbed shoulders with prominent artistic figures of the day: [[Anatole France]], [[Emmanuel Chabrier]], inventor-poet and humorist [[Charles Cros]], the cynical anti-bourgeois idealist [[Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]], [[Théodore de Banville]], [[François Coppée]], [[Jose-Maria de Heredia]], Leconte de Lisle, [[Catulle Mendes]] and others. Verlaine's first published collection, ''[[Poèmes saturniens]]'' (1866),<ref name=litweb>{{cite web |url=http://www.litweb.net/biography/425/Paul_Verlaine.html |title=Paul Verlaine |work=Litweb.net |access-date=2007-07-18 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070807234605/http://www.litweb.net/biography/425/Paul_Verlaine.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 7 August 2007}}</ref> though adversely commented upon by [[Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve|Sainte-Beuve]], established him as a poet of promise and originality.