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Charles Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, and art critic who is best known for his collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil). He was born in Paris on April 9, 1821, to a well-to-do family. His father, Joseph-François Baudelaire, was a senior civil servant and amateur artist, and his mother, Caroline Defayis, was a talented amateur musician.
Baudelaire was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the Collège de France, where he studied law. He was an avid reader and wrote poetry from an early age. His first published work was a collection of poems, Les Fleurs du Mal, which was published in 1857. The collection was controversial for its frankness and was banned in France for its explicit content.
Baudelaire was also a prolific art critic, writing for several journals and newspapers. He wrote extensively on the works of Delacroix, Manet, and Courbet, among others. He was also a translator, translating works by Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, and others.
Baudelaire died in Paris on August 31, 1867, at the age of 46. He is remembered as one of the most influential French poets of the 19th century. His works have been translated into many languages and continue to be widely read and studied.
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Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, and literary/art critic. At his birth, Baudelaire's mother, Caroline Archimbaut-Dufays, was 28; his father Francois Baudelaire was 61. Charles' father instilled in him an appreciation for art, taking his young son to museums and galleries, and teaching him to paint. When Charles was six, his father died and Charles became very attached to his mother, but when she remarried, he was sent to boarding school. The school was ruled by military discipline which caused much of Baudelaire's solitude and fits of crushing melancholy. Baudelaire resented the strictures of his life and was, in turn, difficult and rebellious. He frequently fought with students and teachers. He began to write poems, which were not well received by his masters, who felt them examples of precocious depravity, unsuitable for his age.
On his 21st birthday, Baudelaire received his father's inheritance, but his lavish and extravagant lifestyle (including use of hashish and opium) dwindled his fortune. He fell prey to cheats and moneylenders, which led to heavy debt. He also contracted the venereal disease that eventually took his life. His parents obtained a court order to supervise his money and Charles received only a small allowance.
In 1860, he began publishing prose poetry, a poetic form unknown in France, and became renowned for his innovation in prose experiments. Near the end of his life, Baudelaire's agonizing moods of isolation and despair, which he called his moods of "spleen," returned and became more frequent.
In 1857, Baudelaire's most well-known work, "Les Fleurs Du Mal" ("The Flowers of Evil") was seized by French authorities and Baudelaire was forced to omit six poems and pay a fine; today, it stands as perhaps the most influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. He continued to publish "salon" studies and critical reviews of other artists, including Flaubert's "Madame Bovary".
Baudelaire jumped ship and eventually made his way back to France in February of 1842.
In 1842, Charles met a Creole woman named Jeanne Duval, who became his mistress and dominated his life for the next 20 years. Jeanne would inspire Baudelaire's most anguished and sensual love poetry, provoking such masterpieces of the exotic-erotic imagination as "La Chevelure" ("The Head of Hair"). Baudelaire used his writing to shock and astonish society, likely because of his strict upbringing and strong opposition to authority. He often focused on the immoral and cynical. He felt that his ideas where very similar to those of Edgar Allen Poe, who focused on beauty, death, and the bizarre. Baudelaire began to translate volumes of Poe's work into French, and much of Poe's popularity in England and France is attributed to Baudelaire.
In an attempt to draw him away from the company he was keeping, Baudelaire's stepfather sent him on a voyage to India in 1841.
He eventually attended the College Louis-le-Grand, but was expelled in April 1839.