Charles Baudelaire quiz
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Which organ's name did Baudelaire use for deep gloom?
Answer: spleen
Why: Old medicine held that black bile, the humour blamed for gloomy moods, came from the spleen.
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Who lies in Baudelaire's grave besides his mother?
Answer: His stepfather
Why: On the headstone, the general's name and titles come first, and Baudelaire appears simply as his stepson.
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When did France's top court overturn Baudelaire's conviction?
Answer: 1949
Why: A 1946 law let the Society of Men of Letters ask for old indecency verdicts on books to be reviewed.
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In what year did Baudelaire take a rifle to the barricades?
Answer: 1848
Why: That February he also co-founded a short-lived revolutionary paper, Le Salut public.
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What was Baudelaire convicted of in 1857?
Answer: Offending public morals
Why: The court threw out the second charge, offending religious morality.
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Which T. S. Eliot poem quotes Baudelaire's 'hypocrite reader' line?
Answer: The Waste Land
Why: The French line closes 'The Burial of the Dead', the first of the poem's five sections.
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