Unseen photo of French poet Rimbaud unveiled
AFP
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.
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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