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presses . . . . All machinery is sacred like a work of art" (cited in Porche,
p. 129).-Compare the bloody apparatus of Destruction. "1,12 [J29,7}
1849: Le Representant de ['Indre. Baudelaire's participation not established with
certainty. If the article "Actuellement" is written by him,
then a certain mystification at the expense of the conservative principals at the
newspaper is not out of the question. [J29,8]
1851: with Dupont and La Chamhaudie, La Republique du peuple, democratic
almanac; "Editor Baudelaire." Only L ? Ame du vin" is
puhlished there with his signature. [J29,9]
1852: with Champfleury and Monselet La Semaine theatrale.
Addresses: Fehruary 1854
May
1858
Decemher 1858
Hotel de York Rue Sainte-Anne
Hotel du Maroc, Rue de Seine
Hotel Voltaire, Quai Voltaire
22 Rue Beautreillis
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Summer 1859 Hotel de Dieppe, Rue d Amsterdam
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At the age of twenty-seven, Baudelaire was gray at the temples. [J29,12]
From Charles Asselineau, Baudelaire: Recueil d'Anecdotes (in Crepet, Charles
Baudelaire [Paris, 1908], puhlished in extenso): the story of
Asselineau's handkerchief.14:! Baudelaire's obstinacy. Provocative effects of his
diplomacy." His mania for shocking people. [J29a,1]
From Gautier's obituary for Baudelaire, Le MoniteUl September 9, 1867: Born
in India, and possessing a thorough knowledge of the English language, he made
his debut with his translations of Edgar Poe." Theophile Gautier, Portraits contemporains
(Paris, 1874), p. 159. [J29a,2]
A good half of Gautier's obituary notice is occupied with Poe. The part devoted to
Les Fleurs du mal depends 011 metaphors which Gautier extracts from a story by
Hawthorne: We never read Les Flew"s du mal, by Baudelaire, without thinking
involuntarily of that tale by Hawthorne