Why did Charles Baudelaire stop taking an active interest in politics after 1851?

Charles Baudelaire’s active interest in politics concluded following his participation in the resistance to the Bonapartist military coup of December 1851. Shortly after this event, he declared that he would henceforth focus exclusively on his writing.1

While some earlier accounts dismissed his political involvement between 1848 and 1851 as mere rebelliousness, more recent studies indicate that he held a serious commitment to a radical political viewpoint, which likely aligned with the socialist-anarchist ideas of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Following his withdrawal from political activism, Baudelaire shifted his professional focus toward his literary career, including his influential work as an art critic and his extensive translations of Edgar Allan Poe.12