Charles Asselineau (13 March 1820 – 25 July 1874) was a French writer and art critic. He is also notable as one of the few close friends of the poet Charles Baudelaire. He was born in Paris and died in Châtel-guyon.

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Charles Asselineau
Photograph of Asselineau by Nadar, c.1860.
Born	(1820-03-13)March 13, 1820 Paris
Died	July 25, 1874(1874-07-25) (aged 54) Châtel-Guyon
Education	Lycée_Condorcet
Occupation	Writer, art critic

Biography

Asselineau studied in the Lycée Condorcet where he became friends with Nadar. He started medical studies before switching to literary studies.

He met and became a close friend of Baudelaire in 1845. A year after Baudelaire's death, Asselineau together with Banville published a 3rd edition of Les fleurs du mal. In 1869, he writes the first biography of Baudelaire: Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son œuvre.

Further reading

• Auguste Auzas, Lettres de Madame Veuve Aupick à Charles Asselineau, vol. XCIX, Mercure de France, 16 September 1912, pp. 225-257
• Auguste Poulet-Malassis, Lettres à Charles Asselineau (1854-1873) (definitive edition, edited and annotated by Christophe Carrère), Paris, Honoré Champion, coll. "Bibliothèque des correspondances", 2013
• Nadar. Correspondance. 1820-1851. Tome 1 (ed. André Rouillé). Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 1998
• Baudelaire. Œuvres complètes. Tomes 1 et 2. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Gallimard, 1976
• Catherine Delons, L'Idée si douce d'une mère, Charles Baudelaire et Caroline Aupick, Les Belles Lettres, 2011
• Catherine Delons, Narcisse Ancelle, persécuteur ou protecteur de Baudelaire, Du Lérot, 2002
• Claude Pichois and Jean-Paul Avice, Dictionnaire Baudelaire, Du Lérot, 2002
• Jacques Crépet and Claude Pichois, Baudelaire et Asselineau, textes recueillis et commentés, Nizet, 1953

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