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Charles Baudelaire

Also known as Baudelaire, Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs, Charles Pierre Baudelaire

French poet and critic (1821–1867)

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Charles Baudelaire was a French male author and poet born on 9 April 1821 and died on 31 August 1867. He used the pseudonym Pierre de Fayis. His notable works include Les Fleurs du mal, Eureka, Mukhtār al-shiʻr al-Faransī, Chuť smútku, and Histoires. He was active in his work period from 1844 until 1866.

He is associated with the tags poetry, melancholy, and french. Similar artists include Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Gérard De Nerval, and Jules Laforgue. His work has been referenced by 2,046 other encyclopedia articles.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Pierre
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: Paris
Place of death: Paris
Occupation: draftsperson
Educated at: Lycée Saint-Louis
Languages spoken: French
Native language: French
Religion: Catholicism
Award: Concours général
Notable work: The Albatross
Field of work: poetry
Genre: Decadent movement
Movement: Symbolism
Image: Baudelaire crop.jpg

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on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
end of work period: 1866-00-00
influenced by: Edgar Allan Poe
place of burial: Montparnasse Cemetery
Commons category: Charles Baudelaire
date of birth: 1821-01-01
date of death: 1867-01-01
Commons gallery: Charles Baudelaire
cause of death: syphilis
Commons Creator page: Charles Baudelaire
birth name: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
topic's main category: Category:Charles Baudelaire
manner of death: natural causes
name in native language: Charles Baudelaire
start of work period: 1844-00-00
unmarried partner: Jeanne Duval
has works in the collection: Archives nationales
has written for: Revue des Deux Mondes
writing language: French
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P12674: Barbados nut
P12749: Bodo von Borries
pseudonym: Pierre de Fayis

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Works in European collections

33 objects attributed to Charles Baudelaire, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire ( UK: /ˈboʊdəlɛər/; US: /ˌboʊd(ə)ˈlɛər/; French: [ʃaʁl(ə) bodlɛʁ] ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.

His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist.

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