Who is The Old Mountebank from Paris Spleen, 1869 and what is their importance? Le_Spleen_de_Paris English & Literature "The Old Mountebank | Paris Spleen

Old Mountebank is a poor old man, who lives in a ragged hut that sits on the outskirts of the fair. Baudelaire feels both pity and embarrassment for the old man..... he also wonders if perhaps the man is a poet no longer sought by the masses.