The bourgeois crowds on the grand boulevards were the audience to a poet named Charles Baudelaire. His poetry was attacked because it contained unconventional themes and subject matter. His poetry simply shocked the bourgeois crowds. 

Charles Baudelaire

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In August 1857 Baudelaire faced charges for his book of 100 poems the “Flowers of Evil.” He was fined and forced to remove six poems about lesbianism and vampirism.

              Sayre, Henry M. Discovering the Humanities: Second Edition. 2010. Textbook.