I- His Life On October 20th, 1854, Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville, of the captain Frédéric Rimbaud and Vitalie Cuif. He is the second of five children whom will have the couple. At the age of eleven, he enters the municipal school of Charleville. Always the first one of class, he amazes his professors and his companions by his knowledge, but also by his independence and his balance. One of his teacher said of him: “Intelligent, as much as you want, but he had a smile which I don’t like. He will end badly: in any case, nothing banal will germinate in that head: he will be the genius of good or evil”. That shows well his so particular character, so strange, singular… His gifts are exceptional. He fascinates his professor of rhetoric, his name was Izambard, he was before gardist, and allows him to participate in the competition of the Academy of Douai. I have moreover a small anecdote to tell you about this subject. This competition takes place on July 2nd. There is one test, the Latin, which lasts 6 hours. The pupils settle down in their tables and compose, read their Latin dictionaries, whereas Arthur makes nothing! At the end of one hour the supervisor approaches of Arthur, persuaded that he is going to abandon. When the supervisor asks him if everything is well, Arthur answers him: " no! I am hungry! " The supervisor takes him to take a snatch. Having eaten two enormous sandwiches, Arthur returns to his place. He takes his feather and writes, without consulting his dictionary, without raising the head, until the end of the test. While his companions write their last lines, Arthur returns quietly his copy and go out, hands in his pocket. The result is known some days later: Arthur is first, far in front of the others! When Napoleon III attacks Prussia in 1870, Rimbaud tries to join Paris. But this first runs away ends pathetically to the prison of Mazas where the teenager is thrown: he had not paid his ticket of train! It is about its first experiment