Books/Writings
Charles Baudelaire
1821 – 1867
French

Poet. His 1857 book of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), created a scandal and was prosecuted for indecency. A languorous celebration of decadence, perversion, and prodigality, it is a darkly romantic masterpiece.

Contemporaries
1805–1859Alexis de Tocqueville
1754–1838Charles Talleyrand
1847–1922Georges Sorel
1760–1825Claude Saint-Simon
1854–1891Arthur Rimbaud
1809–1865Pierre Proudhon
1859–1947Pierre Janet
1848–1903Paul Gauguin
1862–1921Georges Feydeau
1859–1941Henri Bergson