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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 rhyme and rhythm, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Baudelaire has received more than 3,602,584 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 101 in 2019). Charles Baudelaire is the 41st most popular writer (up from 134th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from France (up from 159th 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 41 out of 7,302. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf, Alexander Pushkin, Friedrich Schiller, H. P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, and Hermann Hesse. After him are Émile Zola, Stendhal, Euripides, Gustave Flaubert, Aristophanes, and Jane Austen.

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Contemporaries

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, Lola Montez, Elizabeth Blackwell, Auguste Mariette, Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Louis Vuitton, and Richard Francis Burton. Among people deceased in 1867, Charles Baudelaire ranks 2. Before him is Michael Faraday. After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Maximilian I of Mexico, Emperor Kōmei, Franz Bopp, Théodore Rousseau, Otto of Greece, Sakamoto Ryōma, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Victor Cousin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Baudelaire ranks 35 out of 6,770. Before him are Nostradamus (1503), Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), Paul Gauguin (1848), Émile Durkheim (1858), and Alexandre Dumas (1802). After him are Pierre Curie (1859), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Henry IV of France (1553), and Simone de Beauvoir (1908).

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Among WRITERS In France

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

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