Pierre charles baudelaire biography
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Charles baudelaire poetry.
Poems Without Frontiers
Baudelaire was born in Paris where his father was a civil servant and amateur artist. The latter was over 30 years older that his wife and died when Charles was six years old.
Madame Baudelaire married an army officer about one year later, however, and the family moved to Lyon where Charles began school in 1832 at Coll�ge Royal but on returning to Paris in 1836, the family sent Charles to Lyc�e Louis-le-Grand from which he was expelled shortly before graduation.
Pierre charles baudelaire biography
He adopted a dissolute lifestyle and attempted to support himself through journalism. He began to take drugs; and it is thought that it was at this time that he acquired sexually transmitted diseases from the consequences of which he eventually died.
He was sent on a brief visit to India in the hope that he would reform but he returned within a year and recommenced his old ways having attained his majority and inherited his legacy. After he had squandered much of the funds in his Bohemian lif