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Events on Saturday 31 August 1867 1
1821 – 1867Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)Died 31 August 1867, aged 46Baudelaire was a French poet whose 1857 collection Les Fleurs du mal scandalized readers and reshaped modern poetry. His writing on urban life, sensation, and the darker aspects of experience influenced Symbolist and later modernist writers. He also worked as an influential art and literary critic.