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 ...

On June 30, 1845, the French poet, critic, and essayist Charles Baudelaire decided that he had had enough and was going to end his life, and the “extraordinary” suicide letter that he addressed to his ...

DURING the summer of the Paris Exhibition of 1867, while no mean part of the world was looking and wondering amid the noise of crowds at the remarkable works of invention and art, or thinking of the ...

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 ...

Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been making quirky, independent movies since 1980, but in college he studied poetry. "I'm from Akron, Ohio and as a teenager I first read some wild poems by like [Charles] ...

French poet, translator and literary and art critic, Charles Baudelaire's reputation rests mainly on The Flowers of Evil, (1857) which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The discovery of a lost self-portrait of Charles Baudelaire has rekindled interest in the 19th century French poet, revealing a lighter, painterly side to a literary "enfant terrible ...

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 ...