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The Arcades Project - Operi

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Charles Baudelaire, 1855. Photo by Nadar. Musee d'Orsay, Paris; photo copyright<br />

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<strong>The</strong> latter is concerned only with prostitution and. at the end, evokes memories of<br />

the youth of the fallen young women:<br />

Oh! Do no seek to know all that dehauchery does<br />

To wither the flowers and mow them down;<br />

In its working, it is premature as death<br />

And will make you old despite your eighteen years.

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