{"id":2532,"date":"2014-10-18T21:41:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T19:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2022-01-26T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T12:50:04","slug":"rimbaud-on-a-parisian-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/straten-pleinen\/rimbaud-on-a-parisian-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Rimbaud on a Parisian wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Arthur<\/a>Since 2012, you can read Arthur Rimbaud’s famous poem Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat)<\/em> on a Parisian wall. After six years of preparation, consultation, campaigning and fundraising, Dutch foundation TEGEN-BEELD from Leiden managed to place the first wall poem of Paris.<\/p>\n

The poem expresses an imaginary sea voyage of a sinking boat. The boat describes its wandering journey full of strange and sometimes terrifying experiences as well as its imaginative and hallucinatory associations on the road to nowhere. It is a kind of escape story to life.<\/p>\n

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The project was funded by the sale of two hundred certificates of \u20ac100 to Dutch poetry lovers and the support of French and Dutch authorities.<\/p>\n

The initiators chose the long blank wall on Rue F\u00e9rou, which is a narrow street between Saint Sulpice and Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th<\/sup>\u00a0arrondissement. This is a historical place, because, not far from here, the then 17-year-old Rimbaud recited the poem for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Jan-Willem Bruins from TEGEN-BEELD\u00a0painted the hundred poem lines on the wall.<\/p>\n

Neighbors and passers-by expressed excitement and gratitude from the beginning. Never before was the poetry of the great poet brought to life this unique way.<\/p>\n

Since its official opening on June 14, 2012, many poetry loving Parisians and tourists have read Le Bateau Ivre <\/em>silently, recited it aloud and\/or photographed it. The names of all those involved, including those of the Dutch donors, are immortalized on a plaque near the poem as a thank you.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 2012, you can read Arthur Rimbaud’s famous poem Le Bateau Ivre (The Drunken Boat) on a Parisian wall. <\/p>\n

After six years of preparation, consultation, campaigning and fundraising, Dutch foundation TEGEN-BEELD from Leiden Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,28,17],"tags":[52,49,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parisimpressions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}