This is an album of 48 pages, composed of poems written by Verlaine and his friends, who periodically met at "Hotel Des Etrangers", boulevard Saint-Michel, at the corner of the two streets "Racine" and "Ecole-de-Médecine", in a room of the third floor, to make fun, smoke, drink, recite verse and even to play piano: the group of "Vilains Bonhommes" (Naughty Fellows). Thereafter, it was renamed "Zutist Circle" (or Zutic) by Charles Cros.
The poets had fun to parody themselves, and to also parody some Parnassiens, preferably in an obscene way. Rimbaud was very brilliant with this exercise.
The Album was first published in 1943.
The name of the parodied poet appears in first, followed by the initials of the author of parody.