Chansons pour Elle

Chansons pour Elle is the title of the tenth poetry collection in verse by Paul Verlaine, published in 1891 by the publisher Léon Vanier.

Composed of twenty-five medium-length poems, most of the collection is inspired by the poet's affair with Philomène Boudin, "Esther", according to some[1], or with Eugénie Krantz, "Mouton", according to others. [2]. Work with an erotic tone, in the same vein as Parallel (1889), but dedicated to a particular person, its vulgar themes and language already developed many times previously, or in more marked works, confirm the author's decline and his abandonment of all hope of salvation through religious faith, the Intimate Liturgies, published the following year, illustrating by their artificiality the failure of the poet's saving enterprise.