Hippolyte Babou
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Hippolyte Babou (1824-1878) was a French journalist, critic and novelist. Babou also wrote as Jean-sans-Peur, and used the name Camille Lorrain for his journalism in Le Corsaire, Le Charivari, L'Illustration, La Patrie, and Revue de Paris.[1]
Babou was born on 24 February 1824 in Peyriac, Aude.[2]
A friend of Charles Baudelaire, Babou suggested the title 'Les Fleurs du mal' to Baudelaire at the end of 1854.[3]
