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Charles Baudelaire

1821 - 1867

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (UK: , US: ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Baudelaire is the 50th most popular writer (down from 41st in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from France (down from 35th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Writer.

Charles Baudelaire is most famous for his poem "The Flowers of Evil" which he published in 1857.

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Among writers, Charles Baudelaire ranks 50 out of 7,302. Before him are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Pushkin, Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, and Thomas Hardy. After him are Marcel Proust, Denis Diderot, Émile Zola, Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, and Li Bai.

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Among people born in 1821, Charles Baudelaire ranks 2. Before him is Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Gustave Flaubert, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, August Schleicher, Auguste Mariette, Lola Montez, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Elizabeth Blackwell, Wilhelm Tempel, and Louis Vuitton. Among people deceased in 1867, Charles Baudelaire ranks 3. Before him are Michael Faraday, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. After him are Maximilian I of Mexico, Otto of Greece, Emperor Kōmei, Sakamoto Ryōma, Théodore Rousseau, Franz Bopp, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Prince William of Hesse-Kassel.

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Among people born in France, Charles Baudelaire ranks 43 out of 6,770. Before him are Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), Napoleon III (1808), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Claudius (-10), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908). After him are Marcel Proust (1871), Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), André-Marie Ampère (1775), and Émile Zola (1840).

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Among writers born in France, Charles Baudelaire ranks 10. Before him are Molière (1622), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908). After him are Marcel Proust (1871), Denis Diderot (1713), Émile Zola (1840), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), and Stendhal (1783).

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