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Charles Pierre Baudelaire
• April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867
• Baudelaire was born in Paris.
• His father was a senior civil servant and an amateur artist who died in 1837. In the following year his mother married a lieutenant colonel named Aupick, who later became a French ambassador to various courts.
• Baudelaire was educated in Lyon and at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in Paris. On gaining his degree in 1839 he decided to embark upon a literary career, and for the next two years led an irregular life. It is believed that he contracted syphilis during this period.
• To straighten him out, his guardians sent him on a voyage to India, he never even made it there.
• When he returned to Paris,his lavish spending threatened to exhaust his small inheritance, and his family obtained a decree to place his property in trust.
• In this period he met Jeanne Duval, a mulatta who was to become his longest romantic association.
• He took part in the revolutionaries in 1848,......

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