# Charles Baudelaire — Against the Grain character guide

> Charles Baudelaire in Against the Grain by J.-K. Huysmans.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Baudelaire

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Who they are

Poet whose decadent aesthetic and themes of spleen deeply shape Des Esseintes' worldview.

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