Charles Pierre Baudelaire
April 9, 1821 August 31, 1867
Baudelaire was born in Paris.
His father was a senior civil servant and an amateur artist who died in 1837. In the following year his mother married a lieutenant colonel named Aupick, who later became a French ambassador to various courts.
Baudelaire was educated in Lyon and at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. On gaining his degree in 1839 he decided to embark upon a literary career, and for the next two years led an irregular life. It is believed that he contracted syphilis during this period.
To straighten him out, his guardians sent him on a voyage to India, he never even made it there.
When he returned to Paris,his lavish spending threatened to exhaust his small inheritance, and his family obtained a decree to place his property in trust.
In this period he met Jeanne Duval, a mulatta who was to become his longest romantic association.
He took part in the revolutionaries in 1848,......
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