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Charles Baudelaire is a French poet who was born on April 9,1821 his father who was thirty years older than his mother died when Charles was six. Charles was very close with his mother.
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Charles Baudelaire's family moved to Lyons where Charles attended a military boarding school. A little bit before graduation from the military school he was kicked out because he did not give up a note that was passed to him. He instead he ripped it up into pieces.
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in 1841 Charles' family sent him to India in hopes that India to help make changes to his bohemian ways. Charles returned in 1842 back to Paris. He received a large inheritance which allowed him to spend most of his days in art galleries and Cafes in Paris.
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Charles fell in love with Jeanne Duval. Jeanne helped inspire one of Charles Baudelaire's the "Black Venus" section in Les Fleurs du mal
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Charles had spent half of his inheritance, so his family decided to do something.In 1844 Charles' family won a court order that appointed a lawyer that would pay Charles a small allowance for the rest of his life.
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To add to his income he wrote art criticism, essays, and reviews for various journals. His early criticism of French painters such as Eugene Delacroix and Gustave Courbet earned him a reputation as a discriminating critic.
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In 1847 Charles Baudelaire published a piece called novella La Fanfarlo. His first publications began to be seen in journals in the mid-1840s.
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In 1854 Charles Baudelaire published a translated version of Edgar Allan Poes pieces. Which he called it " Twin Soul."
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In 1862 Charles Baudelaire began to have nightmares and suffered from very bad health. He left paris shortly after and headed for Brussels in 1863. He gave a series of lecture, but then had a series of strokes. It resulted in partial paralysis.
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On August 31, 1867 at the age of 46 Charles died in Paris. Though doctors at the time did not include that it is likely that syphilis caused his death.
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His reputation as a poet was a Predecessor. Meaning that he held the job before newer poets. He was a predecessor to many including Stephane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine. He created many great poems that people today still admire today.
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- recorded as one of the most modern poets
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