Arthur Rimbaud in September-October 1871 Photograph by Etienne Carjat
"The Child of Anger" "The Infernal Husband" "The Man with 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, on 20th October, 1854.
His father, Frédéric Rimbaud, an infantry Captain, and his mother Vitalie Cuif, who came from a farming family in the Ardennes, married in 1853. Arthur had an elder brother, Frédéric, and two sisters, Vitalie and Isabelle born, respectively, in 1858 and in 1860.
Some months after Isabelle's birth, their father joined his regiment in Grenoble and never returned home.