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Born in Paris in 1821, Charles Baudelaire, was a poet, art critic, journalist and translator. His collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal was published in 1857 and was accused of infringement of public and religious morality – Charles Baudelaire was fined three hundred francs, and six poems were censored. He died from syphilis in 1867. To this day, Charles Baudelaire is still considered as the godfather of French decadence and he is a favourite amongst French students.

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Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics, 2016)

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Ella Baron studied English Literature at the University of Oxford and graduated in 2017. The same year, she was nominated Young Cartoonist of the Year in the Under 30s Category by the British Cartoonists’ Association. She has worked for The Guardian, The Times, The New Statesman, El País, YesMagazine amongst other journals. She is currently the Staff cartoonist for the Times Literary Supplement, and is showing her first solo exhibition at Christie’s London in April 2019.

https://www.ellabaron.com/

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The Times Literary Supplement

A former curator at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (during which time he contributed to exhibitions about André Breton, German expressionism, Fauvism), Gerard Audinet became the director of the Maisons de Victor Hugo in Paris and Guernsey in 2010, where he initiated exhibitions such as 'Spiritisme et art de Hugo à Breton' or 'Eros Hugo'. He has written several books on Victor Hugo’s works such as L’âme a-t-elle un visage? L’homme qui rit ou les métamorphoses d’un héros or Eros Hugo : Entre pudeur et excès.

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Gérard Audinet, Eros Hugo: Entre pudeur et excès (Editions Paris Musées, 2015)

Frànçois Atlas – whose real name is François Marry – is a French musician, singer, composer and painter. He started playing music in the pubs of Bristol, where he created his band: Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains. He recorded several albums, on his own or with his group, such as The People to Forget, Plaine inondable, E Volo Love and Piano ombre. He released the solo album Les Fleurs du mal, adapted from Charles Baudelaire’s poems, in September 2018.

http://www.francoisandtheatlasmountains.com/

Caroline Ardrey is Lecturer in French at the University of Birmingham and, since September 2017, has been Senior Research Associate on the Baudelaire Song Project (AHRC-funded 2015-2019). Having completed a DPhil on Stéphane Mallarmé's La Dernière mode in 2014, Caroline joined the Baudelaire Song Project team in August 2015 as Research Associate, working on the initial phases of developing the Project's interdisciplinary dataset and digital song analysis techniques. Her wider research focuses on nineteenth-century French poetry and its interactions with popular culture and with other art forms, including music and fashion. Caroline is currently preparing a monograph, to be published with Routledge, which examines the reception of Baudelaire's poetry through popular song settings of his work.

https://carolineardrey.wordpress.com/about/

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Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics, 2016)

London-based, Sarah Ardizzone is a translator from French to English. She has won twice the Marsh Award (in 2005 and 2009), as well as the Scott-Moncrieff Prize and a New York Times notable book accolade. She takes part in programmes promoting a creative approach to translation, including Translation Nation, Translators in Schools, The Spectacular Translation Machine and The Big Translate. She is the deputy chair of English PEN’s writers in translation committee, and a judge for Book Trust’s In Other Words initiative, she is also a patron of Outside In World.

http://worldbookshelf.englishpen.org/Writers-in-Translation-translators-Sarah-Ardizzone

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Gaël Faye, Sarah Ardizzone, Small Country (Vintage, 2019)

Helen Abbott is a Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. She studied at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, completing a PhD thesis on Baudelaire and Mallarmé. She specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and music, exploring ways of writing about word-music relationships in poetic language, in critical theories, and using digital methodologies. She has published three books on Baudelaire, including the latest Baudelaire in Song 1880-1930 (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her particular focus is the work of (post-) romantic and symbolist poets including Gautier, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and Mallarmé. A classically-trained soprano, she connects her intellectual and personal interests in order to lead an international team of researchers on the Baudelaire Song Project (2015-2019, AHRC-funded).

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/french/abbott-helen.aspx

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Helen Abbott, Monograph: Baudelaire in Song 1880–1930 (Oxford University Press, 2017)