One of Baudelaire’s publishers selected and ordered “Fusées,” Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, and some reflections on “Hygiene.” These were published in 1887 as Journaux Intimes (Private Journals), and translated ...

Have you ever had to crop your ex out of a photograph? Well, how about having to ask your mate to erase them from a 20-foot oil painting? Duval was a French actress and courtesan, whose had a ...

PARIS — On the 150th anniversary of Charles Baudelaire’s death from a syphilis-induced cerebral hemorrhage, the flâneur, poète maudit (cursed poet) of ennui, translator of Edgar Allan Poe, and art ...

The Yale historian argued that Charles Baudelaire’s "gray zone" of complicity and irony represents the most typical ...

In a small garret room on the Isle Saint Louis in Paris, Charles Baudelaire sits and writes. He has a fuming pipe in his mouth, a book propped against his table, and there is a gleaming white goose ...

A suicide letter from the French poet Charles Baudelaire to his lover sold at auction for $266,000, more than three times its estimated sales price, the Guardian reports. The letter was written in ...

Around, let’s say, 1885 the young French poet Jules Laforgue was living in Berlin and scribbling observations in his notebooks. He was reading Charles Baudelaire’s notorious book of poetry, Les Fleurs ...

If Charles Baudelaire had lived a century-and-a-half later, I suspect he would have been a rock star. A tormented genius, like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, consumed by the ...

Literary historians have long wondered why Charles Baudelaire, the greatest of the French poets, couldn’t write a word without his mistress, Jeanne Duval, a barely literate Creole beauty who wasted ...

Lemony Snicket is more than just a quirky, dry-witted narrator in A Series of Unfortunate Events, he’s a character with a vested interest in telling the tale of the Baudelaire Orphans: Klaus, Violet, ...

A letter by the French 19th-Century poet Charles Baudelaire announcing he would kill himself has sold at auction for €234,000 (£204,000; $267,000). The note, dated 30 June 1845, was addressed to ...