Paterne Berrichon, the pseudonym of Pierre-Eugène Dufour (10 January 1855, Issoudun – 30 July 1922, La Rochefoucauld) was a French poet, painter, sculptor and designer.
He met the art critic from Châteauroux, George-Albert Aurier, made the acquaintance of Paul Verlaine and adopted the pseudonym "Paterne Berrichon".
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.
He also created paintings, for which his wife often modelled, and sculpted a bust for the Rimbaud monument in the poet's birthplace, Charleville-Mézières.
[3] 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 Rimbaud's brother-in-law.