Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Charles Baudelaire
Born: April 9, 1821
Died: August 31, 1867 (aged 46)
Bio: Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
Known for:
- Les Fleurs du mal (1857)
- Le Spleen de Paris (1855)
- The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
- Les Paradis artificiels (1860)
- La Fanfarlo (1847)
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