Unseen photo of French poet Rimbaud unveiled



PARIS - A previously unseen photo of French poet Arthur Rimbaud was unveiled in Paris on Thursday, bringing the total number of known images of the writer to eight.
The photograph, which shows Rimbaud on the porch of a hotel in Yemen around 1880, was showcased at the International Antiquarian Book Fair at Paris's Grand Palais exhibition venue.



French bookseller Alban Causse with a picture of Rimbaud.
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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Sunday, April 18th 2010
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