The Arcades Project - Operi

Meryon and Baudelaire were born in the same year; Meryon died a year after
Baudelaire. [J33a,6]
In the years 1842-1845, according to Prarond, Baudelaire was fascinated with a
portrait of a woman by Greco in the Louvre. Cited in Crepet, p. 70. [J33a,7]
Project dated May 1846: 'Les Amours et Ia mort de Lucain" . [J33a,8]
He was twenty-two years old, and he found himself immediately provided with
employment at the town hall of the seventh arTondissement-in the Registry of
Deaths; he kept repeating with an air of satisfaction." Maurice Rollinat, Fin
d'oeuvre; cited in Gustave Geffroy, Mawice Rollinat, 1846-1903 (Paris, 1919),
p. 5. [J33a,9]
Barbey d'Aurevilly has placed Rollinat between Poe and Baudelaire; and he calls
Rollinat I.'a poet of the tribe of Dante." Cited in Geffroy, Maurice Rollinat, p. 3.
[J33a,IO]
Composition of Baudelairean poems by Rollinat. [J33a,1l]
I.La Voix" : I."in the pit's deepest dark, I distinctly see strange
worlds. "ifiO [J33a,12]
According to Charles Toubin, Baudelaire in 1847 had two domiciles, on the Rue de
Seine and the Rue de Babylone. On days when the rent was due, he often spent the
night with friends in a third. See Crepet,
p. 48. [J34,1]
Crepet (p. 47) counts fourteen addresses for Baudelaire between 1342 and 1353,
not including Honfleur and some temporary lodgings. He lived in the Quartier dn
Temple, the Ile Saint-Louis, the QuarticI' Saint-Germain, the Quartier Montmartre,
the QUHrtier de la Republique. [J34,2]
"You are passing through a great city that has grown old in civilization-one of
those cities which harbor the most important archives of universal life-and your
eyes are drawn upward, sursum) ad sidera; for in the public squares, at the corners
of the crossways, stand motionless figures, larger than those who pass at their
feet, repeating to you the solemn legends of Glory, War, Science, and Martyrdom,
in a mute language. Some are pointing to the sky, whither they ceaselessly
aspired; others indicate the earth from which they sprang. They brandish, or
they contemplate, what was the passion of their life and what has become its
emblem: a tool, a sword, a book, a torch, vitai lampada! Be you the most heedless
of men, the most unhappy or the vilest, a beggar or a banker, the stone phantom
takes possession of you for a few minutes and commands you, in the name of the