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Arthur Rimbaud

Died in 1891

Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville on 20 October 1854, the son of an infantry captain who abandoned his family. Arriving in Paris in 1871, he became close to Verlaine; in Brussels, in July 1873, Verlaine wounded him with a revolver shot. He stopped writing around the age of twenty, enlisted in 1876 in the Dutch colonial army, which he deserted, then settled as a trader in Aden and Harar, dealing in coffee and arms. He died in Marseille on 10 November 1891.

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