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Updated: May 2, 2025
Dumas, in 'Pictures of Travel in the South of France, relates an interview with the baker-poet of Nimes. "What made you a poet?" asked Dumas. "It was sorrow," replied Reboul "the loss of a beloved wife and child. I was in great grief; I sought solitude, and, finding no one who could understand me, poured forth my grief to the Almighty." "Yes," said Dumas, "I now comprehend your feelings.
The love of nature and the passion for learning sustained him in spite of all, and often served him as nourishment; as on the day when he dined on a few grapes, plucked furtively at the edge of a field, after exchanging the poor remnant of his last halfpence for a little volume of Reboul's poems; soothing his hunger by reciting the verses of the gentle baker-poet.
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