Charles Baudelaire, born April 9, 1821 in Paris and died in the same city on August 31, 1867, was a French poet.
Charles Baudelaire never accepted his mother's remarriage with Aupick when he was only 7 years old.
Is this the cause of his rebellious spirit? Still, he was expelled from Lycée Louis-le-Grand, firmly determined to lead the life of a dandy.
Decision thwarted by his father-in-law, who forcibly embarks him on a liner in the direction of India, then who places under legal guardianship the fortune inherited from his father and threatened with being quickly squandered.
Forced to work, Baudelaire devoted himself to art criticism and the translation of the works of Edgar Poe.
In 1857 appeared 'Les Fleurs du mal', a collection of verses exalting the beauty in germ in all perversity, in all suffering.
The work is condemned for "contempt of public morals and good customs".
It must be said that the poet ignores the triumphant bourgeois values ​​of this century.
He died prematurely, his body eaten away by syphilis, .... and other hallucinogenic substances.
His work establishes poetic modernity, in particular symbolism...