place
Dijon
The Burgundian city whose disused Carthusian charterhouse, now an asylum, frames Rilke's poem of the gentle madmen tending the spring beds.
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §33 DIJON
Dijon in Burgundy, where a disused Carthusian charterhouse serves as the asylum of this poem and the next.
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §366 Dijon
The Burgundian ducal seat in eastern France, where a painted portrait of Charles the Bold is preserved.