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Arthur Rimbaud
Rimbaud, detail from “Un Coin de table,” oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
The French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote his celebrated poem “The Drunken Boat” (originally titled “Le Bateau ivre”) in 1871.1