Mes Prisons, de Paul Verlaine

My prisons" is the journey at the end of the night of a delinquent and unstable Verlaine, an alcoholic poet and vagrant, imprisoned on many occasions in various penitentiary establishments in France and Belgium. Having reached middle age, the author of " Fêtes galantes" and "Poètes maudits" remembers his "criminal and criminal kind of life", led in particular in the company of Arthur Rimbaud, like him "fascinated by a male rage for travel". Caricaturing with humor and tenderness the worthy representatives of the social order who constantly want to deprive him of his freedom, he recounts his prison experience made up of misery and loneliness, but also of writing, as well as his strange conversion to Catholicism.