Charles Baudelaire (182167) greatest French poet Author of "Flowers of Evil" , enfant terrible , People, brought under the Enlightenment and opened the age of modernism with his work , The most influential French writer of the 19th century , whose discoveries have been used by poets and writers around the world, including in Russia the entire Silver Age, He was not only a poet. but also a subtle prose . However, Baudelaire's prose is little known to the Russian reader. Meanwhile, his essays, critical articles, observations from diaries and notebooks, sketches of novels and plays are interesting not only because they allow a broader view of the poet’s work; first of all, they are smart and at the same time entertaining reading. Most of the texts presented in the publication are published in Russian for the first time.