Tombe de Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire lies in a family tomb that creates a final, lasting irony for the poet. He shares this small plot with his mother and his stepfather, General Jacques Aupick, a man the poet despised throughout his life for his rigid attempts to reform Baudelaire into a conventional citizen. On the tombstone, the general receives top billing, while the poet’s name appears below, as if he were merely an opening act for his own family.