Charles Didier (15 September 1805 – 7 March 1864) was a Swiss writer, poet and traveller.

In 1827, attracted by the myth of Italy, he decided to undertake a trip to the peninsula, where he went as a tutor.

On his return from Italy in 1830, he moved to Paris, where he became for a few years, George Sand's lover,[1] "ill-married" and divorced from Casimir Dudevant,[1] along with Michel de Bourges [fr] 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.

[2] Prevented by impending blindness, to take the road to the East,[further explanation needed] Charles Didier ended his life by committing suicide March 7, 1864 in Paris after long suffering.