
French bookseller Alban Causse with a picture of Rimbaud.
The black and white image is only the fourth to portray the poet as an adult and is "the only one in which Rimbaud's adult facial characterisics are distinguishable", according to the poet's biographer, Jean-Jacques Lefrere.
Rimbaud, who was once described by Victor Hugo as "an infant Shakespeare", produced his best-known works in his late teens. At 20 he gave up poetry and left France to travel. He died from cancer in 1891 aged 37.
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Rimbaud, who was once described by Victor Hugo as "an infant Shakespeare", produced his best-known works in his late teens. At 20 he gave up poetry and left France to travel. He died from cancer in 1891 aged 37.
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