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In the Dernieres Lettres (p. 145), this phrase for Jeanne: I.that aged beauty who
has now become an invalid. "1 7l He wants to leave her an annuity after his death.
[l3s,s]
Decisive for the confrontation between Baudelaire and Hugo is a passage from
Hugo's letter of November 17, 1859, to Villemain: "Sometimes I spend the whole
night meditating on my fate, before the great deep, and . . . all I can do is exclaim:
Stars! Stars ! Stars!" Cited in Claudius Grillet, Victor Hugo spirite (Lyons and
Paris, 1929), p. 100.172 [l3s,6]
The multitudes in Hugo: " The prophet seeks out solitude. . He goes into the
desert to think. Of what? Of the multitudes." Hugo, William Shakespeare, 6. [l3s,?]
Allegory in the spiritualist protocols from Jersey: "Even pure abstractions frequented
Marine-Terrace: Idea, Death, the Drama, the Novel, Poetry, Criticism,
Humbug. They . .. preferred to make their appearance during the day, while the
dead came at night." Claudius Grillet, Victor Hugo spirite (Lyons and Paris,
1929), p. 27. [l3sa,l]
The "multitudes" in Hugo figure as the I.'depths of the shadow" in Les Chiitiments
("La Caravane," part 4), Oeuvres completes, vol. 4, Poesie (Paris, 1882), p. 397:
"The day when our plunderers, our tyrants beyond number, / Will know that
someone stirs in the depths of the shadow." [J35a,2]
On Les FleU1's du mal: "Nowhere does he make a direct allusion to hashish or to
opium visions. In this we must admire the superior taste of the poet, completely
taken up as he is with the philosophic construction of his poem." Georges Rodenbach,
L'Elite (Paris, 1899), pp. 18-19. [l3sa,3]
Rodenbach (p. 19) emphasizes, like Beguin, the experience of the correspondances
in Baudelaire. [l35a,4]
Baudelaire to d' Aurevilly: " Should you take Communion with hands on
hips?" Cited in Georges Rodenbach, L 'Elite (Paris, 1899), p. 6. [l35a,5]
Three generations (according to Georges Rodenbach, L'Elite [Paris, 1899], pp. 6-
7) revolve about the " splendid restoration of Notre Dame." The first, forming as it
were an outer circle, is represented by Victor Hugo. The second, represented by
d'Aurevilly, Baudelaire, and Hello, forms an inner circle of devotion.
The third is made up of the group of satanists: Huysmans, Guaita, peladan.
[.J3Sa,6]
'''However beautiful a house may he, it is first of all-before we consider its
beauty-so many feet high and so many feet wide. Likewise, literature, which is