"Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc..."

Autograph postcard signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on both sides in black ink. Envelope enclosed.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond.
"Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc, aidé, tant mieux ! de la piété charmante et tendre de Madame Delzant. La gloire du Poëte se fait toujours solitaire." ["Everything that lived around Verlaine thus fades away, helped, so much the better! by the charming and tender piety of Madame Delzant. The Poet's glory always stands alone."] Delzant had announced to Mallarmé the death of Eugénie Krantz, Verlaine's last mistress. Delzant's wife had frequented her during visits to the sick at Bonsecours hospital in Montrouge.