Baudelaire
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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His reading was precociously broad: Marx and Engels, Baudelaire and Céline, all in their original languages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Spend any time with the garrulous Reggio and he’ll invoke wisdom from Nietzsche, Plato, Baudelaire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
But I found a different line on a mock street sign on the Rue Charles Baudelaire, in a middle-class neighborhood of the city’s 12th arrondissement: “There, there’s only order, beauty: abundant, calm, voluptuous.”
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2023
It was Baudelaire, from after he saw Wagner’s “Tannhaüser”: “I’ve witnessed a spectacle of time, space and light that I have never experienced before.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
He gazed at all three Baudelaire children with his shiny, shiny eyes.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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