Education
After attending the lycée in Châteauroux, Dufour moved to Paris where he studied sculpture and painting, and was soon moving in artistic and literary circles.
After attending the lycée in Châteauroux, Dufour moved to Paris where he studied sculpture and painting, and was soon moving in artistic and literary circles.
He is best known as husband of Isabelle Rimbaud, and the brother-in-law and publisher of In 1896, he published the poems of his youth in which he showed the original and slightly excessive sideto his personality. Fervent admirer of Arthur Rimbaud, he started a correspondence with Isabelle Rimbaud, the younger sister of the poet, which concluded in 1897 by marriage. Once together, they strove to perpetuate the cult of the poet from Charleville.
In perfect tune with the social attitudes of the time, the Berrichons not always objective approach to the life and works of Rimbaud was characterised by an inflexible ideology based on traditional values of respectability and morality.
Their overriding desire was to present an angelic Rimbaud erasing the infernal periods of the poet"s life. Was seeking to establish that Rimbaud"s relationship with Verlaine was chaste.
And that Rimbaud rediscovered his catholic faith on his death bed. In his edition of Rimbaud"s works, for which he had obtained the backing of Paul Claudel, Paterne Berrichon made at least a third of the poems and about two thirds of the correspondence disappear.
A publishing house, established in Crest, Drôme and specialising in poetry, called itself the "Enemies of Paterne Berrichon" to denounce the distorted and commercialised practices of Ribaud"s brother-in-law.
Works by Paterne Berrichon.
