Caroline was an orphan: her mother, who came from a family of solicitors from the same part of France as the Baudelaires, died in England, where she had emigrated for unknown reasons little is known about Caroline’s father except that his name was Charles Dufayis and that he was supposed to have died in July 1795 at Quiberon Bay in southern Brittany when Revolutionary forces put down a peasant revolt aided by émigrés. He went to Paris on a scholarship and in the course of a long career there became a priest worked as a tutor for the children of Count Antoine de Choiseul-Praslin, even composing a manual to teach Latin resigned his priesthood during the Reign of Terror married Rosalie Janin, a painter, and had a son, Alphonse Baudelaire (1805–1862) earned a living as a painter and from the age of thirty-eight until retirement worked his way up the ranks of the civil service.įrançois Baudelaire was 60 when he married the 26-year-old Caroline Dufayis (1793–1871) in 1819 Charles was their only child, born in Paris on April 9, 1821. Baudelaire’s father, François Baudelaire (1759–1827), came from a family of woodworkers, winegrowers, farm laborers, and craftsmen who had lived near the Argonne forest since the 17th century.
In his life-story there are classic ingredients for neurosis, and his adult life was shaped by a triangle of family relations that some believe explains his complicated psyche. The extent of the influence of Baudelaire’s family background on his life and work has been the subject of some interest to critics. More than a talent of 19th-century France, Baudelaire is one of the major figures in the literary history of the world.
Baudelaire’s work has had a tremendous influence on modernism, and his relatively slim production of poetry in particular has had a significant impact on later poets. His body of work includes a novella, influential translations of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, highly perceptive criticism of contemporary art, provocative journal entries, and critical essays on a variety of subjects. Baudelaire is distinctive in French literature also in that his skills as a prose writer virtually equal his ability as a poet. While Baudelaire’s contemporary Victor Hugo is generally-and sometimes regretfully-acknowledged as the greatest of 19th-century French poets, Baudelaire excels in his unprecedented expression of a complex sensibility and of modern themes within structures of classical rigor and technical artistry. Charles Baudelaire is one of the most compelling poets of the 19th century.
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