Jeanne Duval was a mulatto actress, dancer, and muse to French poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire, for twenty years. They met in 1842, when Duval left Haiti for France, and the two remained together, albeit stormily, for the next two decades. Duval is said to have been the woman whom Baudelaire loved most, in his life, after his mother. Poems of Baudelaire's which are dedicated to Duval or pay her homage are: "Le balcon", "Parfum exotique", … Wikipedia
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