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Arthur Rimbaud

1854 - 1891

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Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ nikɔla aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃bo] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Rimbaud is the 77th most popular writer, the 63rd most popular biography from France and the 19th most popular French Writer.

Arthur Rimbaud is most famous for his poem "A Season in Hell."

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Among writers, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 77 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles Perrault, Milan Kundera, Robert Frost, Theodor Herzl, Jorge Luis Borges, and Václav Havel. After him are Maxim Gorky, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hesiod, Henrik Ibsen, François Rabelais, and Miyamoto Musashi.

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Among people born in 1854, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 2. Before him is Oscar Wilde. After him are Pope Benedict XV, Henri Poincaré, Leoš Janáček, Emil von Behring, Paul Ehrlich, Karl Kautsky, Henri La Fontaine, James George Frazer, Paul Sabatier, and Milan I of Serbia. Among people deceased in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 1. After him are Nikolaus Otto, Georges Seurat, Helena Blavatsky, Herman Melville, Pedro II of Brazil, Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Sofia Kovalevskaya, P. T. Barnum, Léo Delibes, and Wilhelm Eduard Weber.

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 63 out of 6,770. Before him are Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Charles Perrault (1628), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Francis I of France (1494), and Claudius (-10). After him are Louis Philippe I (1773), Louis de Funès (1914), Michel Foucault (1926), François Rabelais (1494), Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933), and Jean-François Champollion (1790).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 19. Before him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Marcel Proust (1871), Romain Rolland (1866), and Charles Perrault (1628). After him are François Rabelais (1494), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), André Gide (1869), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), and Sully Prudhomme (1839).

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