Editing Paul Verlaine (section)

===Marriage and military service===
Mathilde Mauté became Verlaine's wife in 1870. At the proclamation of the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]] in the same year, Verlaine joined the 160th battalion of the ''[[National Guard (France)|Garde nationale]]'', turning [[Communards|Communard]] on 18 March 1871.

Verlaine became head of the press bureau of the Central Committee of the [[Paris Commune]]. Verlaine escaped the deadly street fighting known as the Bloody Week, or ''[[Semaine Sanglante]]'', and went into hiding in the [[Pas-de-Calais]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}