Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris on 9 April 1821. His mother remarried in 1828, to an officer, Jacques Aupick. Sent off in 1841 on a voyage to Calcutta, he broke off the journey at Mauritius and Réunion and returned to France. He squandered part of the inheritance he received on coming of age, and his family had him placed under a legal guardian in 1844. An art critic from 1845 and a translator of Edgar Poe, he lived in Belgium from 1864 to 1866 and died in Paris on 31 August 1867.

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• PoetryThe Flowers of EvilLes Fleurs du malCharles Baudelaire · 1857LiteraturePublic domain