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According to Le Dantec, the second tercet of 'Sed Non Satiata" is in some degree
linked to "Les Lesbiennes." (J28a,6]
By 1843 according to Prarond, a great many poems from Le Fleurs du mal were
already written. [J28a,7]
In 1845, "The Gold-Bug" is translated by Alphonse Borghers as "Le Scarab"e
d'or;' in La Revue britannique. The next year, La O!Jotidienne publishes an adaptation,
signed by initials only, of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue;' wherein Poe's
name goes unmentioned. Decisive for Baudelaire, according to Asselineau, was
the translation of "The Black Cat" by Isabelle Meunier, in La Democratie pacifique
(1847). Characteristically enough, the first of Baudelaire's translations from Poe,
to judge by the date of publication 1uly 15, 1848>, was of "Mesmeric Revelation:'
[J28a,8]
1855: Baudelaire writes a letter to George Sand, interceding on behalf of Marie
Daubrun. [J28a,9]
""Always very polite, very haughty, and very unctuous at the same time, there was
about him something reminiscent of the monk, of the soldier, and of the cosmopolitan."
Judith Cladel, Bonshommes (Paris, 1879), cited in E. and J. Crepet, Charles
Baudelaire (Paris, 1906), p. 237. [J29,1]
In his "Notes et documents pour mon avocat/' Baudelaire refers to the letters on
art and morality which Balzac addressed to Hippolyte Castille in the newspaper
La Semaine. 1