as the International Puppetry Institute (French: Institut International de la Marionnette), which is housed in a historic building featuring a giant automaton of a puppeteer who performs a puppet show every hour on the hour. The École Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette (ESNAM), a college which offers a higher education in puppetry, is also situated in Charleville-Mézières. The poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) was born in Charleville. The is located in the old water mill (Le Vieux Moulin) to the north of the town. Transport The local network of public buses within the Ardenne Métropole, TAC, is operated by RATP Dev. The Charleville-Mézières railway station offers connections to Paris (by TGV), Reims, Lille, Metz and regional destinations. Sport OFC Charleville represent the town at association football. Étoile de Charleville-Mézières is a basketball club. Famous residents Louise Bellocq (1919–1968), French writer, winner of the 1960 Prix Femina, was born in Charleville Olivier Brochard (born 1967), former football player Antoine Louis Dugès (1797–1838), obstetrician and naturalist François Habeneck (1781–1849), violinist born in Mézières Adolphe-Hippolyte Couveley (1802–1867), painter born in Charleville Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé (1747–1814), general, French revolutionary, minister of war, 12th President of the National Convention. Louis Dufour (1652–1733), the abbé of Longuerue, was born in Charleville. Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834), mathematician born in Mézières. Henri Mialaret (1855–1919), sailor Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), mathematician, taught at the École royale du génie de Mézières. Étienne Riché (1883–1934), politician and banker, twice under-secretary of state and deputy for the Ardennes, born in Charleville Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), the French poet, was born in Charleville. Félix Savart (1791–1841), physicist and mathematician born in Mézières Louis Tirman (1837–1899), lawyer and civil servant, Governor General of Algeria from 1881 to 1891 Natalis de Wailly (1805–1886), 19th-century historian and palaeographer born in Charleville International relations Charleville-Mézières is twinned with: Dülmen, Germany Euskirchen, Germany Nordhausen, Germany Nevers, France Mantua, Italy Tolosa, Spain See also Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard Clément-Bayard Communes of the Ardennes department Notes References External links Communes of Ardennes (department) Prefectures in France Champagne (province) Ardennes communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia