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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville.Life and work
He was born into the rural middle class of Charleville (now part of Charleville-Mézières) in the Ardennes département in northeastern France.
As a boy Rimbaud was a restless but brilliant student. By the age of fifteen, he had won many prizes and composed original verses and dialogues in Latin.
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In 1870 his teacher Georges Izambard became Rimbaud's first literary mentor, and his original verses in French began to improve rapidly. He frequently ran away from home and may have briefly joined the Paris Commune of 1871, which he portrayed in his poem "L'Orgie parisienne ou Paris se repeuple" (the Parisian orgy or Paris repopulates).
He may have been a victim of sexual assault by drunken Communard soldiers (his poem "Le Cœur supplicié" - "The Tortured Heart" - suggests so). By then he had become an anarchist, started drinkin