Charles Baudelaire

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Profession
Poet
Died
Aug 31, 1867
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
ParisFrance
About
Nineteenth-century French prose poet, essayist, translator, and critic associated with the Symbolist and Modernist literary movements. His best-known works include Les Fleurs du mal, Les paradis artificiels, and Le Spleen de Paris.
Family
He had a drawn-out affair with Jeanne DuVal and shorter relationships with an actress (Marie Daubrun) and a courtesan (Apollonnie Sabatier). Throughout his life, however, he was most driven by the need for his mother's approval.

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