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Charles Baudelaire
French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, photograph by Étienne Carjat, 1863.
In April 1864, Charles Baudelaire moved from Paris to Brussels with the specific intention of persuading a Belgian publisher to release his complete works.1
At this time, Baudelaire was facing desperate financial difficulties, exacerbated by the 1862 bankruptcy of his publisher, Poulet-Malassis. He remained in Belgium until the summer of 1866, when he suffered a severe health collapse that left him with paralysis and aphasia.1