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Mother of the visionary poet Arthur Rimbaud
- Marie Catherine Vitalie Rimbaud, née Cuif, was better known simply as Vitalie Rimbaud, and was the mother of the visionary poet Arthur Rimbaud. She was born on 10 March 1825 and died on 16 November 1907. She met Captain Frédéric Rimbaud (1814–1878), a French infantry officer, in October 1852 and married him the following February.
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- He Started Writing at A Very Young Age
- His Parents Separated When He Was A Kid
- Rimbaud Wrote All of His Poetry in A Span of Five Years
- He Died from Bone Cancer
- He Was Involved in A Torrid Relationship with A Fellow Poet
- Rimbaud Travelled Extensively
- He Did Not Publish Most of His Poems
- He Lived His Final Years in The Middle East and Africa
- He Was Once Shot by His Partner
- Rimbaud Topped His Class in School
Arthur Rimbaud started writing at a very young age and excelled in school, although he disliked schoolwork and resented his mother’s constant supervision. When he was nine years old, he wrote a 700-word essay objecting to his having to learn Latin in school. His mother hired a private tutor for him when he reached the third grade, which succeeded i...
Arthur Rimbaud’s parents, Captain Rimbaud and Vitalie Cuif got married on 8 February 1853. The marriage produced five children, born between 1953 and1960. Though the marriage lasted for seven years, Captain Rimbaud continuously stayed away from his matrimonial home due to his military postings. Captain Rimbaud was home only when he was on leave. Th...
Rimbaud wrote all of his poetry in a span of about five years, from 1870 to 1875. His only writing after 1875 survives in documents and letters. In his correspondence with family and friends, Rimbaud indicates that he spent his adulthood in a constant struggle for financial success. He spent the final twenty years of his life working abroad, and he...
In 1891, Arthur Rimbaud developed what was initially thought to be arthritis in his right knee. He was not responding to the treatment and was prepared to return from Aden to France for treatment. Rimbaud consulted with a British doctor, who diagnosed him with tubercular synovitis and recommended amputation of his leg. He arrived in Marseille and w...
Arthur Rimbaud had written to several poets, but received no replies. He was advised to write to the Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine. Rimbaud sent him several pages of poems, including his The Sleeper in the Valley. Verlaine was intrigued by Rimbaud’s work and sent him a one-way ticket to Paris. He arrived in Paris in 1871 and lived with Verlaine for ...
By the late 1870s, Rimbaud had completely given up literature in favor of a steady, working life. After studying several languages he went on to travel extensively in Europe, mostly on foot. In May 1876 he enlisted as a soldier in the Dutch Colonial Army[to get free passage to Java in the Dutch East Indies. Four months later he deserted and fled in...
Rimbaud hardly cared about the fate of his poems, especially after 1873. He did not prepare his poems for publication and did not want to see them printed. “One Summer in Hell” is the only poem book he published himself. Apart from several other early poems published in magazines, all his other poems were published by his friends without his knowle...
Rimbaud settled in Aden, Yemen, in 1880, as a main employee in the Bardey agency. He left his job and relocated to Ethiopia to become a merchant, where his commercial dealings included coffee and firearms. He was the first European to oversee the export of the celebrated coffee of Harar from Ethiopia where coffee was born. Rimbaud was only the thir...
Rimbaud and his friend Verlaine, the relationship was very torrid, they argued continuously, and drank heavily. On the morning of 10 July 1873, Verlaine bought a revolver, shot, and wounded Rimbaud in a drunken rage. Rimbaud was treated for his wound and Verlaine was arrested and charged with attempted murder. The charges were later reduced to woun...
Rimbaud was a highly successful student in school, topping his class in all subjects except mathematics and the sciences. His schoolmasters remarked upon his ability to absorb great quantities of material. He won eight first prizes in the French academic competitions in 1869, including the prize for Religious Education, and the following year won s...
He was the second child of Frédéric Rimbaud (7 October 1814 – 16 November 1878) [8] and Marie Catherine Vitalie Rimbaud (née Cuif; 10 March 1825 – 16 November 1907). [9] Rimbaud's father, a Burgundian of Provençal heritage, was an infantry captain who had risen from the ranks; he had spent much of his army career abroad. [10]
Marie Catherine Vitalie Rimbaud, née Cuif, was better known simply as Vitalie Rimbaud, and was the mother of the visionary poet Arthur Rimbaud. She was born on 10 March 1825 and died on 16 November 1907.
30 April (1891): Arthur Rimbaud to Marie Catherine Vitalie Cuif. On April 7, 1891, French poet Arthur Rimbaud closed his gun running business and embarked on his last and most painful journey out of Harar, Ethiopia. The casual racism in this letter was rampant at the time, commonly used as a justification for French (and other European nations ...
Vitalie Rimbaud, née Marie Catherine Vitalie Cuif le 10 mars 1825 à Roche et morte le 1er août 1907 dans le même village, est l'épouse de Frédéric Rimbaud et la mère d’ Arthur Rimbaud.
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was the second son of Frédéric Rimbaud, a cultured infantry captain, and Marie Catherine Vitalie Rimbaud, the daughter of a successful farmer. The couple would have a further three children (all girls) although one passed away at only a few weeks old.
