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The definitive title for the book was proposed by Hippolyte Babou in the Cafe
Lamblin. [J26a,1]
"L'Amour ct Ie crane" . "This poem of Baudelaire's was
inspired by two works of the engraver Henri Goltzius." Alphonse Seche, La Vie
des Fleurs du rna.! « Amiens,> 1928), p. 111. [J26a,2]
·"A Vne Passante." "M. Crepet mentions as possible source a passage from 'Dina,
la belle Juive; in Petrus Borers Cluunpavert . .. : 'For me, the thought that this
lightning flash that dazzled us will never be seen again ... ; that two existences
made . . . for happiness together, in this life and in eternity, are forever sundered
. .. -for me, this thought is profoundly saddening. '" Cited in A. Seche, La
p.1. [P
"'Reve parisien." Like the speaker in the poem, Constantin Guys also rose at noon;
hence, according to Baudelaire (letter of March 13, 1860, to Poulet-Malassis), the
dedication.'29 [J26a,4]
Baudelaire (where?)l:1O points to the third book of the Aeneid as source for ""Le
Cygne." (See Sec he, p. 104.) [J26a,5]
To the right of the barricade; to the left of the barricade. It is very significant that,
for large portions of the middle classes, there was only a shade of difference
between these two positions. This changes only with Louis Napoleon. For
Baudelaire it was possible (no easy trick!) to be friends with Pierre Dupont and to
participate in the June Insurrection on the side of the proletariat, while avoiding
any sort of run-in when he encountered his friends from the Ecole NOffilande,
Chennevieres and Le Vavasseur, in the company of a national guardsman.-It
may be recalled, in this context, that the appointment of General Aupick as
ambassador to Constantinople in 1848 goes back to Lamartine, who at that tin,e
was minister of foreign affairs. [J26a,6]
Work on Les Fleurs du mal up through the first edition: fifteen years. [J26a,7]
Proposal of a Brussels pharmacist to Poulet-Malnssis: in exchange for a commitment
to huy 200 copies, he would be allowed to advertise to renders, in the back
pages of Les Paradis artificiels, a hashish extract prepared by his firm. Baudelaire's
veto won out with diffieulty. [J26a,S]
From d' AureviLlis letter to Baudelaire of February 4, 1859: '"Villain of
genius! In poetry, I knew you to he a sacred viper spewing your venom in the faees
of the g-s and the g-s. But now the viper has sprouted wings and is soaring
through the clouds to shoot its poison into the very eyes of the Sun!" Cited in
Ernest Seilli;"'e, Baudelaire (Paris, 1931). p. 157. [J27,1]