"The greatest deception the devil has ever perpetrated was convincing the world that he doesn't exist." This quote is attributed to the French writer, philosopher, and poet Charles Baudelaire and is taken from an article published in Le Figaro in 1864. In France, it was a period of upheaval and discontent, of social unrest, of inequalities, and of a return to an aristocratic status quo after the failure of the French Revolution.