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wallace fowlie's rimbaud chronology
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wallace fowlie's rimbaud chronology |
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden charms from star to star, and I dance."
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The following chronology is taken from the now out-of-print RIMBAUD - The Myth of Childhood by Wallace Fowlie (1946 The By Portsdown Press, Fleet Lane, London, EC4) |
| 20th October 1854 | Birth of Jean-Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud, in Charleville (Ardennes) |
| Easter 1865 | Enters 7ieme classe, College de Charleville |
| October 1869 | writes first poetry in French |
| January 1870 | arrival of Georges Izambard in Charleville |
| 24th May | letter to Banville (Rimbaud is 15 years, 7 months old) |
| July-August | Franco-Prussian War breaks out |
| 6th August | graduation at the College |
| 25th August | letter to Izambard (at Douai) |
| 29th August | first flight to Paris, by train; in prison at Mazas |
| 5th September | letter (from Paris) to Izambard |
| 8th September | arrives at Douai |
| 27th September | returns to Charleville |
| 7th October | second flight, to Belgium; Charleroi, Bruxelles, Douai (last visit with Izambard) |
| 29th October | returns to Charleville |
| 31st December | Mezieres (next town to Charleville) bombarded |
| January 1871 | extensive reading on magic |
| 25th February | third flight to Paris; in home of Andre Gill |
| 10th March | returns to Charleville |
| April-May | in Paris, participates in la Commune,
Caserne de Babylone (?), enlists in "les tirailleurs de la Revolution" returns to Charleville |
| 12th May | letter to Izambard; first Lettre de voyant (encloses Le Couer Vole) |
| 15th May | letter to Demeny (second Lettre du voyant) |
| 12th July | last letter to Izambard |
| August | writes to Verlaine, encloses Bateau Ivre |
| end September | arrives at Verlaine's house; leaves after 15 (?) days |
| middle December | lives in room, paid for by Verlaine, rue Campagne Premiere |
| January-April 1872 | in Paris |
| April | returns to Charleville |
| May | in Paris, lives in Hotel de Cluny, rue Victor Cousin |
| 7th July | leaves for Brussels with Verlaine |
| 8th September | Rimbaud and Verlaine leave for England |
| 10th September | they arrive in London; accused by Mme Verlaine; defended by Mme Rimbaud |
| end December | Rimbaud in Charleville; Verlaine, abandoned in London, calls Rimbaud |
| January 1873 | Rimbaud comes to London; illness and hallucinations; returns to Roche (near Charleville); begins Une Saison en Enfer |
| 25th May | Rimbaud and Verlaine embark at Antwerp for England |
| end June | violent quarrel in London; Verlaine leaves for Belgium; Rimbaud penniless in London. Verlaine sends money to Rimbaud, who leaves London |
| 8th July | Rimbaud in Brussels, Hotel de la Ville de Courtrai, I, rue des Brasseurs |
| 12th July | Rimbaud accuses Verlaine but denies calumny; Verlaine incarcerated in prison of Mons Rimbaud returns to the Ardennes |
| 20th July | on the farm at Roche; finishes Une Saison en Enfer |
| October | Une Saison printed |
| March 1874 | in London with Germain Nouveau. Rimbaud is 20; becomes tutor in Scotland |
| 1875 | February: sees Verlaine for the last time in Stuttgard; Wanderings: Milan, Turin, Sienna; Charleville in October; studies languages; December: his sister Vitalie dies |
| 1876 | quarrels with mother and brother; June: joins Dutch army; July: deserts in Java; returns to Charleville 31st December. |
| 1877 | Germany, Copenhagen, Stockhold, Marseille, Rome; winter in Charleville |
| 1878 | spring in Charleville; Genoa, Egypt |
| 1879 | Cyprus; June in Roche (after typhoid fever); Rimbaud 25 this winter; end of aimless vagabondage |
| 1880 | Aden; coffee exporter; Harra |
| 1881 | contracts syphilis; returns to Aden in December |
| 1882 | Aden; Harrar |
| 1884 | in Aden with Harai girl |
| 1891 | April: suffers from knee; 2nd May arrive at Marseille; June, July: writes to Isabelle; his leg amputated; July: returns to Roche; August: returns to Marseille; dies 10th November at 10 in the morning |
