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Charles Baudelaire

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    (April 9, 1821-August 31, 1867)
    Wrote ‘Le Salon de 1846 (1846),' ‘La Fanfarlo (1847),' ‘Les Fleurs du mal (1857),' ‘Le Salon de 1859 (1859)' and ‘Les Paradis artificiel (1860)'
    Translated many stories of Edgar Allan Poe
    Exponent of the ‘Decadent' school of literature

Why he might be annoying:

    He disappointed his mother and stepfather.
    He got syphilis.
    He was an opium addict.
    He tried too hard to be shocking.
    One critic claimed he was ‘an extremely repressed and control-obsessed individual whose greatest creation, and greatest failure, was his public persona.'
    Of the composer Richard Wagner, he said: ‘I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the pane of glass with its claws.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was a wonderful poetic stylist.
    His father died when he was six.
    His longtime girlfriend was black, and their relationship was condemned by society.
    Daniel Handler used his name for the main characters in ‘Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.'
    ‘The Usual Suspects' famously quoted him (‘The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist').

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 27 Votes: 59.26% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 24 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 35 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 72 Votes: 68.06% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 267 Votes: 40.82% Annoying