Sex, drugs and green hair: Jean Teulé tells the censored life of Charles Baudelaire

INTERVIEW

From Charles Baudelaire, we especially remember the tortured poems of 

and the trials for offenses against good morals that this book has earned him.

A narrow vision that the novelist Jean Teulé

in 

and at the microphone of Anne Roumanoff, Wednesday on Europe 1.

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A misogynist in love with the ugly

Charles Baudelaire harbored an obsession for women.

"He idolized his mother, to such an extent that people found it weird," says Jean Teulé.

"Baudelaire said that when his mother had to go out to go shopping, he was so in need of her that he went into lingerie to open the wicker basket to plunge his head into the basket of dirty laundry to breathe in the smells. of her panties. "

A quasi-incestuous relationship with the first woman of his life which will mark the poet's taste for scandalous relationships.

"He began his sex life with a little squinty Jewish whore, who was called Sarah la Louchette," explains Jean Teulé.

"She's going to give him gonorrhea."

The first STD in a long list ...

The poet will be distinguished all his life by the women he frequents.

"He didn't like beautiful women and he preferred them ugly or weird", reveals Jean Teulé.

So much so that the only women he seems to respect are very old women, to the glory of whom he wrote the poem

.

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Cannabis for breakfast

Charles Baudelaire died at 46, "stoned by drugs", in the words of Jean Teulé.

"On photos of him at 44, one has the impression that he is over 80", observes the biographer.

It must be said that the cursed poet had a diet of his own.

"In the morning, on an empty stomach, he took the equivalent of a bar of hash in his morning tea," says the author.

But the author of 

did not stop at soft drugs.

"He was taking opium and at the end of his life he also snorted ether," adds the writer.

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Baudelaire, "a sheep punk"

Jean Teulé also believes that Charles Baudelaire was "the first punk on Earth".

Because beyond drugs and scandalous behavior, Charles Baudelaire also had an allure that had nothing to envy the most exuberant rock stars.

"He dyed his hair green, he walked around with an ostrich feather boa around his neck," says the writer.

"He kept a sheep on a leash whose wool he had dyed pink. It was not a dog punk, it was a sheep punk. It was 'No future'", adds Jean Teulé, referring to the slogan of the punk movement.

A motto that was not applied to his work, which has largely survived him.