Patti Smith, writer and musician extraordinaire, has bought a reconstruction of the childhood home of her lifelong idol, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. The house is located in Roche, a tiny, quiet ...

The poet Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville-Mézières, in eastern France, on 20 October 1854. To give his poetry a new spark of life, the town created a Rimbaud City Trail made of 11 murals.

Patti Smith is renowned for her words, both in books and in song. As such, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the 70-year-old recently purchased the reconstructed home of the French poet, ...

Do you know the origin of this word? It comes from one of the most significant artistic trends of the first half of the 20th century: Surrealism. Les fleurs du mal (‘The Flowers of Evil’) by Charles ...

Painted gold, the metal box displays a portrait of the 19th Century poet Arthur Rimbaud, who is buried here at Charleville. The postbox was installed because people write to him. Even now. The French ...

In today's Rendezvous, Cicely Fell explores the enduring myth of Arthur Rimbaud and finds out how his poetry is being brought off the bookshelves and into people's lives. The Rimbaudmania exhibition ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was an anti-establishment, anti-war rebel who wrote the bulk of his dazzling Symbolist ...