The Arcades Project - Operi

I ... atin and Greek-in which I did very well. And this is what saved me. "'13 Charles
Baudelaire, Vers latins, ed, Jules Mouquet (Paris, 1933), pp, 17, 18, 26, [J18,5]
..
According to PCladan, 44Theorie plastique de l'androgyne" (Me" cure to
de France, 21 [1910], p. 650), the androgyne appears in Rossetti and Burne-
Jones, [J18,5]
Ernest Seilliere, Baudelaire (Paris, 1931), p. 262, on "the death of artists": "Rereading
his work, I tcll myself that, were he making his debut as a writer now, not
only would he not be singled out for distinction, hut he would be judged maladroit."
[J18,7]
Seilliere refers to the story "La Fanfarlo" as a document whose importance for
Baudelaire's biography has not been sufficiently recognized .
[J18,8]
"Baudelaire will keep to the end this intermittent awkwardness which was so
foreign to the dazzling technique of a Hugo." Ernest Seilliere, Baudelaire, p. 72.
[J18a,l]
Key passages on the unsuitability of passion in art: the second preface to Poe, the
study of Gautier. 94 [J18a,2]
The first lecture in Brussels was concerned with Gautier. Camille Lemonnier compares
it to a Mass celebrated in honor of thc master. Baudelaire is said to have
displayed, on this occasion, "the grave beauty of a cardinal of letters officiating at
the altar of the Ideal." Cited ill Seilliere, Baudelaire (Paris, 1931), p. 123.
[J18a,3]
'"In the drawing room on t.he Place Royale, Baudelaire had himself introduced as
a fervent disciple but . .. Hugo, ordinarily so skillful in sending away his visitors
happy, did not understand the artijicialiste character and the exclusively Parisian
predilections of the young man . ... Their relations nonetheless remained cordial,
Hugo having evidently not read the 4Salon de 1846'; and, in his 4Refiexions sur
quelques-uns de mes contemporains' ,
Baudelaire showed himself very admiring, even rather perceptive, if without
great profundity." Ernest Seilliere, Baudelaire (Paris, 1931), p. 129. [JISaA]
Baudelaire, reports Seilliere (p. 129), is supposed to have enjoyed strolling often
along the Canal de l'Ourcq. [JISa,5]
Al)ont the Dufays-Baudelairc's forehears on his mother's side-nothing is
known. [J18a,6]
"In 1876, in an article entitled 'Chez feu mon maitrc'