Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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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