Paul A. Mankin recites the most famous French poetry from the 19th Century. Gerard de Nerval, Victor Hugo and Alphonse de Lamartine, the main poets from the romantic period are represented, as well as precursors of Symbolism, Paul Verlaine and Stephane Mallarme. in addition, the album includes poems written by the tortured Charles Baudelaire and the unclassifiable Arthur Rimbaud.