# Charles Baudelaire — What Is Art? character guide

> Charles Baudelaire in What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** M. Baudelaire

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

French poet criticized for decadent and obscure art.

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