The Arcades Project - Operi

makers as they are useless for forming citizens . . . . But I think that the wise
despot, after careful reflection, would refrain from intervening, faithful to the
tradition of an agreeable philosophy: Apres nous le deluge." Maurice Ban'es, La
Folie de CharlEs Baudelnire (Paris), pp. 103-104. [J13,2]
""Baudelaire was perhaps only a hard-working soul who felt and understood what
was new through Poe, and who disciplined himself in the course of his life to
become specialized." Maurice Barres, La Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris),
p. 98. [J13,3]
"'Let us perhaps guard against taking these poets too quickly for Christians. The
liturgical language, the angels, the Satans . .. are merely a mise en scene for the
artist who judges that the picturesque is well worth a Mass."73 Maurice Barres, La
Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris), pp. 44-45. [J13,4]
""Ilis best pages are overwhelming. He rendered superb prose into difficult verse."
Maurice Barres, La Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris), p. 54. [J13,S]
""Scattered across the sky like luminous seeds of gold and silver, radiating out from
the deep darkness of night, the stars represent [for Baudelaire] the ardor and
energy of the human imagination." Elisabeth Schinzel, Natur lmd Natursymbolik
bei Poe, Baudelaire und den franzosischen Symbolisten (Diiren [Rhineland],
1931), p. 32. [.J13,6]
'''Ilis voice . .. muffled like the nighttime rumble of vehicles, filtering into plushly
upholstered bedrooms." Maurice Barres, La Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris),
p. 20. [J13,?]
""It might seem, at first, that Baudelaire's oeuvre was relatively infertile. Some wits
compared it to a narrow basin dug with effort in a gloomy spot shrouded in
haze . ... The influence of Baudelaire was revealed in Le Parnasse contemporain
. .. of 1865 . ... Three figures emerge: . .. Stephane Mallanm\ Paul Verlaine, and
Maurice Rollinat." Maurice Barres, La Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris),
pp. 61, 63, 65. [J13,S]
""And the place occupied hy racial epithets among the rabble at that time!"
Maurice Barres, La Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris), p. 40. [J13a,l]
Flaubert to Baudelaire: '''You praise the flesh without loving it, in a melancholy,
detached way that I find sympathetic. Ah! how well you understand the boredom
of existence!"74 Cited in Maurice Barres, La Folie de Charles Baudelaire (Paris),
p. 31. [J13a,2]
Baudelaire's predilection for Jnvenal may well have to do with the latter's being
one of the first urban poets. Compare this observation by Tbibaudet: "In survey-