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Charles Baudelaire — Poet, author of Les Fleurs du mal, 1821–1867
Son of a civil servant who died when he was five, he hated his mother’s remarriage and led in Paris a dandy’s life that exhausted his inheritance. An art critic and Poe’s translator, he published one major verse collection in his lifetime; the book was condemned for offending public morals and six pieces were struck from it. (Editorial synthesis)
Charles Baudelaire was born on 9 April 1821. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles Baudelaire died on 31 August 1867. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles Baudelaire died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Charles Baudelaire died of syphilis, after a stroke that had left him hemiplegic and aphasic. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Larousse)
Recorded work of Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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