I Will Go To Zanzibar
Rimbaud Museum

“Peut-être irai-je à Zanzibar, d’où on peut faire de longs voyages en Afrique… “(Maybe I will go to Zanzibar, from where you can travel long journeys to Africa…)

A. Rimbaud (Cairo, August 23, 1887)

Rimbaud, his wanderings around Europe, Cyprus and Abyssinia… The man always searched further for the life he depicted with his poems, but hunted in vain on the dusty tracks of the Orient. We know he never achieved his dream to go to Zanzibar, and he came back to end his days in Marseille.

Marseille, that is precisely there that lives Christine Coulange, her starting point to travel the world,  to grasp what challenges time and legitimates a journey, the experience of intensity, spontaneous generosity, consciousness of others, beyond oceans.

Christine Coulange went to Zanzibar. She met the seaweed pickers, elders full of wisdom, young daydreamers and the everlasting sea.

Christine Rodès

Regards de Provence Museum - Rimbaud Museum

"we evolve in a space open to myths, legends, everything is yet to do, to invent. her extended hand seems to be sowing seeds, like the muse giving birth to creation, scattering the mind of the poet with young sprouts to transform."

Bernard Muntaner