{{Short description|Swiss writer and poet (1805–1864)}} {{Infobox person | name = | image = Didier Charles.JPG | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 15 September 1805 | birth_place = Geneva | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1864|03|07|1805|09|15}} | death_place = Paris | othername = | occupation = Writer<br />Poet<br />Traveller | years_active = | spouse = | signature = }}
'''Charles Didier''' (15 September 1805 – 7 March 1864) was a Swiss writer, poet and traveller.
Charles Didier followed classic studies in Geneva, where he published two collections of poems, ''La Harpe helvétique'' (1825) and ''Mélodies helvétiques'' (1825).
In 1827, attracted by the myth of Italy, he decided to undertake a trip to the peninsula, where he went as a tutor. In 1829 his travels took him to Sicily.
On his return from Italy in 1830, he moved to Paris, where he became for a few years, George Sand's lover,<ref name=Larousse>[http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Sand/143001#421692 «Aurore Dupin, baronne Dudevant, dite George Sand»] in Encyclopédie Larousse online</ref> "ill-married" and divorced from Casimir Dudevant,<ref name=Larousse/> along with {{ill|Michel de Bourges|fr|Louis-Chrysostome Michel}} and the actor Bocage. Didier's article, however, failed to arouse wide interest among the French public, just as a short and dense article by a certain Theil, which appeared in 1837 in the newspaper La Paix, in which the author, "had spoken about Leopardi wonderfully, but before a distracted audience and in a place that was too unliterary," failed to do so six years later.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Larousse |first=Éditions |title=George Sand née Aurore Dupin baronne Dudevant - LAROUSSE |url=https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Aurore_Dupin_baronne_Dudevant_dite_George_Sand/143001 |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=www.larousse.fr |language=fr}}</ref>
Prevented by impending blindness, to take the road to the East,{{Explain|date=August 2022}} Charles Didier ended his life by committing suicide March 7, 1864 in Paris after long suffering.
== Works == ;Poetry *1825: ''La Harpe helvétique'' *1825: ''Mélodies helvétiques'' ;Novels *1833: ''Rome souterraine'' *1838: ''Chavornay'' *1844–45 ''Caroline en Sicile'' *1859: ''Les amours d'Italie''
;Travels *1837: ''Une année en Espagne'' *1842: ''Campagne de Rome'' *1844: ''Promenade au Maroc'' *1856: ''Cinq cents lieues sur le Nil''
He also wrote reports for the ''Revue encyclopédique'' and the ''Revue des deux Mondes''.
== Notes == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Auteur:Charles_Didier Charles Didier] on Wikisource * [http://data.bnf.fr/12462857/charles_didier/ Charles Didier] on Data.bnf.fr * {{DHS|15938|Didier, Charles|auteur=Daniel Maggetti|date=11 février 2005}} * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PPw6AAAAcAAJ Rome souterraine]'' (Tome I, online) * ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=5kYvAAAAYAAJ Campagne de Rome]'', Jules Labitte libraire-éditeur, Paris, 1844 (online) {{Authority control}}
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