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Why was Arthur Rimbaud arrested at a Paris train station?
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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
In August 1870, during an impulsive attempt to put his revolutionary socialist ideals into practice, Arthur Rimbaud ran away to Paris. Upon his arrival, he was arrested at the train station for traveling without a ticket. Following a brief period in prison, he wandered through northern France and Belgium before being brought back to his hometown of Charleville by the police.1