Weekend in Charleville-Mézières - Part 3 - Visit to Rimbaud's house and museum

Sunday morning started off with a delicious, typical French breakfast: coffee in a bowl, croissants and brioches, jam, fruit and yogurt.

After breakfast, we visited the house of Arthur Rimbaud. The house itself was nearly empty, but had a modern-style exposition, with video, sound effects, and so on, and there was a museum across the street with actual letters he wrote, manuscripts, etc.

Portrait of Rimbaud

Manuscript of "Le Bateau Ivre"

View from museum window into the city.

Turns out the the streets of Charleville are mostly parallel and perpendicular to each other, which isn't the case in many old European cities.

Statue of Duc de Gonzague, who founded Charleville in 1606.

Charleville-Mézières Downtown. A bientôt!