Who were Charles Baudelaire’s parents?

Charles Baudelaire was the only child of François Baudelaire and his second wife, Caroline Defayis.1

François Baudelaire was a former priest who had abandoned holy orders in 1793 to become a civil servant; he was also a painter and poet who introduced his son to the arts. Following the death of his father in 1827, Baudelaire’s mother married Jacques Aupick in 1828. Aupick, a career soldier who eventually rose to the rank of general, became Baudelaire’s stepfather.1