Gun fired at Arthur Rimbaud sells for €434,000

The gun that the poet Paul Verlaine used to try to kill his lover, the poet Arthur Rimbaud, sold at Christies, Paris, on 30 November, for 434,000 with fees, more than six times its upper estimate of 70,000. The one-of-a-kind piece, arguably one of literary historys most famous weapons, was modestly priced and sparked a lengthy bidding war before selling to an anonymous buyer over the phone.After running away from Paris together to find refuge in London, the pair fought so much that Verlaine lef