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the most priceless material, is first of all the filling up of so many columns, and a
literary architect whose name in itself is not a guarantee of profit has to sell at all
kinds of prices." Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 385 C"Conseils aux jeunes litterateurs
").17:-1 [J35a,7]
Note from "Fusees": I.'The portrait of Serenus by Seneca. That of Stagirus by
Saillt John Chrysostom. Acedia, the malady of monks. Taedium. vitae . . :'
Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 632.174 [J35a,8]
Charles-Henry Hirsch descrihes Baudelaire, in comparison to Hugo, as '"more
capable of' adapting to widely varying temperaments, thanks to the keenness of his
ideas, sensations, and words . ... The lessons of Baudelaire endure by virtue of
... the strict form which keeps them before our eyes." Cited in Le Cinquantenaire
de Charles Baudelaire (Paris, 1917), p. 41. [J36,1]
A remark by Nadal' in his memoirs: Around 1911, the director of an agency for
newspaper clippings told him that Baudelaire's name used to show up in the newspapers
as often as the names of Hugo, Musset, and Napoleon. See Le Cinquantenaire
de Charles Baudelaire (Paris, 1917), p. 43. [J36,2]
Passage from Le Salut publique attributed by Crepet to Baudelaire: I.'Citizens
should not give heed . . . to such as these-to Barthelemy, Jean Journet, and
others who extol the republic in execrable verse. The emperor Nero had the laudable
habit of rounding up all the bad poets in an amphitheater and flogging them
cruelly." Cited in Crepet,