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concentration has caused him to reduce each piece to a single drop of essence
enclosed in a crystal flagon cut with many facets;' and so on (p. 350). Banality
pervades the entire analysis. "Although he loves Paris as Balzac loved it; al­
though, in his search for rhymes, he wanders through its most sinister and
mysterious lanes at the hour when the reflections of the lights change the pools of
rainwater into pools of blood, and when the moon moves along the broken
outline of the dark roofs like an old yellow ivory skull; although he stops at times
by the smoke-dimmed windows of taverns, listening to the croaking song of the
drunkard and the strident laugh of the prostitute, ... yet very often a suddenly
recurring thought takes him back to India:' Theophile Gautier, Histoire du Romantisme
(Paris, 1874), p. 379 ("Le Progres de la poesie franaise depuis 1830'').''''
Compare Rollinat! (129.,4]
Interior of the Hotel Pimodan: no sideboard, no dining room table, frosted glass
panes. At t.hat point, Baudelaire had a servant. [J29a,S]
1851: new poems in Le Messager de l'Assemblee. The Saint-Simonian Revu.e politique
turns down his manuscripts. Porche remarks that it looks very much as
though Baudelaire was not really able to choose where to publish. [J30,l]
The fortune Baudelaire inherited in 184,2 totaled 75,000 francs (in 1926, equivalent
to 450,000 francs). To his colleagues-Banville-he passed for " very rich."
He soon afterward discreetly left home. [J30,2]
As Porche nicely puts it «La Vie douloureuse de Charles Baudelaire
1926],> p. 98), Ancelle was the embodiment of the " legal world."
[Paris,
[J30,3]
Journey to Bordeaux in 1841 by stagecoach, one of the last.-A very severe
storm Baudelaire went through on board the ship commanded by Captain Saliz,
the Paquebot des Mers du Sud, appears to have left little trace in his work. [J30A]
Baudelaire'8 mother was twenty-six and his father sixty when they married in
1819. [J30,S]
In the Hotel Pimoelan, Baudelaire wrote with a red goose quill. [J30,6]
Mesmeric Revelation," certainly not one of Poe's more distinguished works, is
the only story to be translated by Baudelaire during the Ameriean author's lifetime.
1852: Poe biography in La Revue de Paris. 1854: beginning of the translation
work. [J30,7]
It should be remembered that Jeanne Duval was Baudelaire's first love. [J30,S]
Meetings with his mother in the Louvre during the years of dissension with Aupick.
[J30,9]