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this idea; for how can we be sure that those tribes which we call 'savage' may not in<br />

fact be the disjecta membra of great extinct civilizations? ... It is hardly necessary<br />

to say that when Monsieur G. sketches one of his dandies on paper, he never<br />

fails to give him his historical personality-his legendary personality, I would<br />

venture to say, if we were not speaking of the present time and of things generally<br />

considered frivolous." Baudelaire, L 'Art romantique, vol. 3, ed. Hachette (Paris),<br />

pp. 94-95. 1H this idea; for how can we be sure that those tribes which we call 'savage' may not in<br />

fact be the disjecta membra of great extinct civilizations? ... It is hardly necessary<br />

to say that when Monsieur G. sketches one of his dandies on paper, he never<br />

fails to give him his historical personality-his legendary personality, I would<br />

venture to say, if we were not speaking of the present time and of things generally<br />

considered frivolous." Baudelaire, L 'A rt romantique, vol. 3, ed. Hachette (Paris),<br />

pp. 94-95. [D5,IJ<br />

1H [D5,IJ<br />

Baudelaire describes the impression that the consummate dandy must convey: "A<br />

rich man, perhaps, but more likely an out-of-work Hercules!" Baudelaire, L 'Art<br />

romantiqlte romantiqlte (Paris), (Paris), p. p. 96.19 96.19 [D5,2J<br />

In the essay on Guys, the crowd appears as the supreme remedy for boredom:<br />

'''Any man,' he said one day, in the course of one of those conversations which he<br />

illumines with burning glance and evocative gesture, 'any man ... who can yet be<br />

bored in the heart of the multitude is a blockhead! A blockhead! And I despise<br />

him!" Baudelaire, L'Art romantique, p. 65. 20 In the essay on Guys, the crowd appears as the supreme remedy for boredom:<br />

'''Any man,' he said one day, in the course of one of those conversations which he<br />

illumines with burning glance and evocative gesture, 'any man . .. who can yet be<br />

bored in the heart of the multitude is a blockhead! A blockhead! And I despise<br />

him!" Baudelaire, L'Art romantique, p. 65.20 [D5,3]<br />

Among all the subjects first marked out for lyric expression by Baudelaire, one<br />

can be put at the forefront: bad weather. [D5,4J<br />

As attributed to a certain " "Carlin," Carlin," the well-known anecdote about Debul'au (the<br />

actor afflicted with boredom) forms the piece de resistance of the versified Eloge de<br />

I 'ennui

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