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Charleville Mezieres, the birthplace of Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud is a famous French poet born and raised in the beautiful town of Charleville towards the end of the 19th century. He is renowned and well known across France, though not so famous in the UK.

If you visit Charleville it is hard to miss him though, as many of Charleville’s restaurants, artwork and hotels are named after him and there is not one, but two museums dedicated to his memory.

Museum dedicated to Arthur Rimbeau

About Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud was born in 1854 and is most famous for his poetry and influence on modern literature and the arts, particularly surrealism.

He wrote all his famous poems between the ages of 15 and 21, a young genius! He was known to be a bit of a lost soul, desperate to travel and see more of the world beyond Charleville. In fact, this is what he did leaving Charleville and his writing behind to travel across 3 continents as a merchant in his early twenties, including spending a couple of years in Ethiopia in Northern Africa.

Before he left for his travels he had an a

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� Biography � Part 1

From the Poet to the Adventurer

Arthur in September-October 1871.
Photograph by Carjat.

"The Child of Anger"
"The Infernal Husband"
"The Man with Foot Soles of Wind"

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"The man was tall, well-built, almost athletic, with the perfectly oval face of an angel in exile, with untidy light brown hair and eyes of a disturbing pale blue"

Paul Verlaine : The Accursed Poets

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Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville, in the Ardennes, October 20, 1854. His father, Captain of Infantry Fr�d�ric Rimbaud and his mother, Vitalie Cuif, descended from a farming family of Ardennes, married in 1853. Arthur had an elder brother, Fr�d�ric. His sisters Vitalie and Isabelle are born in 1858 and in 1860.
Then their father definitively joined his regiment in Grenoble, leaving his wife and children. He quickly retired to Dijon. Deeply hurt, his wife kept silence on him. The children were very strictly educated, because their mother feared that they would follow the bad ex

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Arthur Rimbaud

French poet (1854–1891)

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (, ;^[3]^[4]French:[ʒɑ̃nikɔlaaʁtyʁʁɛ̃bo]^ⓘ; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.

Born in Charleville, he started writing at a very young age and excelled as a student, but abandoned his formal education in his teenage years to run away to Paris amidst the Franco-Prussian War. During his late adolescence and early adulthood, he produced the bulk of his literary output. Rimbaud completely stopped writing literature at age 20 after assembling his last major work, Illuminations.

Rimbaud was a libertine and a restless soul, having engaged in a hectic, sometimes violent romantic relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, which lasted nearly two years. After his retirement as a writer, he traveled extensively on three continents as a merchant and explorer until his death from ca