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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Rimbaud has received more than 3,128,594 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 98 in 2019). Arthur Rimbaud is the 66th most popular writer (down from 65th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from France (down from 59th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Writer.

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

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  • 78.92

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  • 100

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 66 out of 5,755. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Thomas Mann, Rabindranath Tagore, Jack London, Henrik Ibsen, and Stefan Zweig. After him are Charles Perrault, James Joyce, Romain Rolland, Giacomo Casanova, Isaac Asimov, and Ayn Rand.

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Contemporaries

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

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In France

Among people born in France, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 61 out of 6,011. Before him are William the Conqueror (1028), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Edgar Degas (1834), Georges Bizet (1838), and Jacques-Louis David (1748). After him are Charles Perrault (1628), Claude Debussy (1862), Henri Becquerel (1852), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Louis Braille (1809), and Hector Berlioz (1803).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Arthur Rimbaud ranks 16. Before him are Denis Diderot (1713), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), and Gustave Flaubert (1821). After him are Charles Perrault (1628), Romain Rolland (1866), Marquis de Sade (1740), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), George Sand (1804), and André Gide (1869).

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