1. baudelaire, charles Frenchpoet of the romantic school, born in Paris; distinguished among his contemporaries for his originality, and his influence on others of his class; was a charming writer of prose as well as verse, as his "Petits Poèmes" in prosebearwitness. VictorHugo once congratulated him on having "created a new shudder"; and as has been said, "this side of his genius attracted most popular attention, which, however, is but one side, and not really the most remarkable, of a singularcombination of morbid but delicate analysis and reproduction of the remotest phases and moods of humanthought and passion" (1821-1867).
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