The songwriter and author Patti Smith has purchased the reconstructed childhood home of the late 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud, Architectural Digest reports.

Located in a small town in France called Roche, the house is where nineteen-year-old Rimbaud penned his 100-page poem, A Season in Hell, which, AD notes, “marked a departure from previous poetry and opened a new path toward surrealism.” The town, in the region of Ardennes, near the French-Belgian border, has approximately ninety inhabitants.

When the house began to fall apart in the past few decades, supporters of the poet—Jacqueline Kranevitter and Paul Boens—began the reconstruction. But it has fallen again into disrepair, prompting the president of the International Association of Friends of Arthur Rimbaud, Alain Tourneux, to contact Smith to ask if she’d be interested in maintaining the house, Observer reports.

During a recent trip to Paris to receive the Grand Vermeil Medal, Smith apparently accepted the offer, quietly signing papers to purchase the home, according to artnet news.

Smith, who last year sang “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” at the 2016 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Bob Dylan’s stead, has long spoken of her adulation of Rimbaud. In 2007, Smith told The Independent:

If [Rimbaud] had been living in our time, he would have been on the Mount Olympus of rock gods along with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan and people like that because he had all the components: he was experimental, irreverent but spiritual, a visionary. Brilliant, but divided about his brilliance, he both wanted people to comprehend his work, yet at the same time he held these same people in complete contempt—the same schism that was in Kurt Cobain. And certainly he was visually appealing—when I was 16, I thought he was beautiful, he served well as an imaginary boyfriend!

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