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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 who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from 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. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Baudelaire has received more than 3,295,038 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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  • 106

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  • 3.70

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Notable Works

Journaux Intimes
Diaries, French Poets, Biography
1920
Petits poèmes en prose
Poetry, French Prose poems
1926
Le spleen de Paris
Diaries
1917
Les Fleurs du Mal
Translations into English, French Poets, Biography
1857
Poems
Correspondence, Arts, Translations into English
1909
Les paradis artificiels
Drug addiction, Psychopharmacology, French literature
Ceux qui savent s'observer eux-memes et qui gardent la memoire de leurs impressions, ceux-la qui ont su, comme Hoffmann, construire leur barometre spirituel, ont eu parfois a noter, dans l'observatoire de leur pensee, de belles saisons, d'heureuses journees, de delicieuses minutes. Il est des jours ou l'homme s'eveille avec un genie jeune et vigoureux. ses paupieres a peine dechargees du sommeil qui les scellait, le monde exterieur s'offre a lui avec un relief puissant, une nettete de contours, une richesse de couleurs admirables.
1928

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Over the past year Charles Baudelaire has had the most page views in the with 438,482 views, followed by English (339,909), and Spanish (142,616). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Walloon (157.39%), Mingrelian (118.66%), and Chuvash (91.50%)

Among WRITERS

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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