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The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire is one the great works by the Charles Baudelaire . Show Excerpt u, exclaims Pierre Lasserre. But there is more of Byron and Petrus Borel--a forgotten half-mad poet--in Baudelaire; though, for a brief period, in 1848, he became a Rousseau reactionary, sported the workingman's blouse, cut his hair, shouldered a musket, went to the barricades, wrote inflammatory editorials calling the proletarian Brother! (oh, Baudelaire!) and, as the Goncourts recorded in their diary, had the head of a maniac. How seriously we may take this swing of the pendulum is to be noted in a speech of the poet's at the time of the Revolution: Come, he said, let us go shoot General Aupick! It was his stepfather that he thought of, not the eternal principles of Liberty. This may be a false anecdote; many such were foisted upon Baudelaire. For example, his exclamations at cafes or in public places, such as: Have you ever eaten a baby? I find it pleasing to the palate! or, The night I killed my father! Naturally, people stared and Baudelaire was happy--he had startled a bourgeois. The cannibal

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