Charles Baudelaire, born April 9, 1821 in Paris and died in the same city on August 31, 1867, is a French poet.Charles Baudelaire never accepted his mothers remarriage to Aupick when he was only 7 years old.Is this the cause of his rebellious spirit? The fact remains that he is excluded from the Louis-le-Grand high school, firmly determined to lead the life of a dandy.Decision thwarted by his father-in-law, who forced him onto a liner heading for India, then placed the fortune inherited from his father under judicial guardianship and threatened to be quickly squandered.Forced to work, Baudelaire devoted himself to art criticism and the translation of the works of Edgar Poe.In 1857, Les Fleurs du mal was published, a collection of verses exalting the beauty germinating in all perversity, in all suffering.The work is condemned for “outrage to public morals and good customs”.It must be said that the poet ignores the triumphant bourgeois values of this century.He dies prematurely, his body eaten away by syphilis, .... and other hallucinogenic substances.His work founded poetic modernity, in particular symbolism... (Audio book)
Charles Baudelaire : Citations
