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Arthur Rimbaud
Rimbaud, detail from āUn Coin de table,ā oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris
Arthur Rimbaud died in Marseille, France, on November 10, 1891.1
After developing a tumor on his knee in Ethiopia earlier that year, he returned to France for medical treatment, which included the amputation of his right leg. Following a brief period at his family farm in Roche, he returned to a hospital in Marseille, where he was diagnosed with cancer and subsequently passed away.2