Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th-century French poet who lived in Paris. He was a translator and literary and art critic whose most notable work is Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857). His Petits poèmes en prose (Little Prose Poems, 1868) was a successful and innovative collection of poetry for the time. Baudelaire was also a well-known translator of the works of Edgar Allan Poe.