For 10 points, name this European country, the home to Arthur Rimbaud (ram-bo), Charles Baudelaire, and Jules Verne.
One poet from this country described the color of the vowels as "A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green." A medieval poet from this country asked "where are the snows of yesteryear?" in his poem The Ballad of Dead Ladies." Another poet from this country included his poems "The Swan" and "The Litanies of Satan" in a collection divided into sections such as "Death," "Revolt," and "Spleen and Ideal," entitled The (*) Flowers of Evil. A novelist from this country wrote about Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. For 10 points, name this European country, the home to Arthur Rimbaud (ram-bo), Charles Baudelaire, and Jules Verne.
One poet from this country described the color of the vowels as "A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green."
{France} [or the {French Republic}; or {Republique francaise}]