Charles Baudelaire
French poet and critic (1821–1867)
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French symbolist and modernist poet and art critic.
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He is best known for his volume of poetry Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) in 1857. Baudelaire was born in Paris,[1] and studied law at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Baudelaire's first publication was his art review Salon of 1845.
References
change- ↑ "Charles Baudelaire, a life in writing". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
Other websites
change- Media related to Charles Baudelaire at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about Charles Baudelaire (Internet Archive)