He also began to run up debts, mostly for clothes. He began to frequent prostitutes and may have contracted gonorrhea and syphilis during this period. Later, he attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, studying law, a popular course for those not yet decided on any particular career. At 14, he was described by a classmate as "much more refined and distinguished than any of our fellow pupils.we are bound to one shared tastes and sympathies, the precocious love of fine works of literature." Baudelaire was erratic in his studies, at times diligent, at other times prone to "idleness". He stated in a letter to her that, "There was in my childhood a period of passionate love for you." Baudelaire regularly begged his mother for money throughout his career, often promising that a lucrative publishing contract or journalistic commission was just around the corner.īaudelaire was educated in Lyon, where he boarded. Baudelaire's biographers have often seen this as a crucial moment, considering that finding himself no longer the sole focus of his mother's affection left him with a trauma, which goes some way to explaining the excesses later apparent in his life. The following year, Caroline married Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick, who later became a French ambassador to various noble courts. Joseph-François died during Baudelaire's childhood, at rue Hautefeuille, Paris, on 10 February 1827. His father, Joseph-François Baudelaire (1759–1827), a senior civil servant and amateur artist, who at 60, was 34 years older than Baudelaire's 26 year-old mother, Caroline (née Dufaÿs) (1794–1871), as she was his second wife. Early life īaudelaire was born in Paris, France, on 9 April 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist. 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. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal ( The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing beauty of nature in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. His poems exhibit mastery of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life. Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat, 1863Ĭharles Pierre Baudelaire ( UK: / ˈ b oʊ d ə l ɛər/, US: / ˌ b oʊ d( ə) ˈ l ɛər/ French: ( listen) 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.
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