Chocolat Poetry Book

Well, the poem Armand reads to her grandson (see below for extract) is by Rimbaud and is called 'Farewell' in its English translation (Adieu in the original French). You could try 'Une Saison En Enfer', it's an anthology of Rimbaud's poetry, but I have no idea if it's the one used in the film or not.



'Ah, the putrid rags, the rain-soaked bread, drunkenness, the

thousand loves that have crucified me! Will she never have done,

then, that ghoul queen of a million dead ... bodies.... I see myself

again, skin rotten with mud and pest, worms in my armpits and in

my hair...'




The mirror... it's broken.
Yes, I know. I like it that way. Makes me look the way I feel.

Thanks, I also had this question....

Oh, No!!!! Am I an Epsilon in an Alpha and Beta world????

It's "Farewell" from Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell"

Arthur Rimbaud himself is an interesting character who lived the wild bohemian life in the late 1800s, wandering across Europe mostly on foot. If I'm not mistaken, "A Season in Hell" is the last thing he wrote before disappearing for a few decades until he finally turned up in Marseilles on his deathbed. I learned about him after seeing "Eddie & the Cruisers", a kickass film.