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suddenly reopened it under the lamplight and, haunted by a verse, picked up his
pen. One can tell where he paused, what page he creased [!], how unsparing he
must have been of the volume; for he had not been given some de luxe copy needing
to be protected from damage. It was very much, as he himself liked to describe it,
his' pocket Baudelaire." Charles Baudelaire, Vingt-Sept Poemes des Fleurs du
mal, illus'r", par Rodin (Paris, 1918), p, 7 (preface by Camille Manclair),
[J37a,1]
The penultimate paragraph in "Chacun sa chin,ere"
is distinctly reminiscent ofBlanqui: "And the procession passed by me and
disappeared in tile haze at tile horizon, just where the rounded surface of the
planet prevents tile human gaze from following:' Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 1, p. 412.178
[J37a,2]
On the painter Jules Noel: "He is doubtless one of those who impose a daily
amount of progress upon themselves." Salon de 1846," Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 126.17'1
[J37a,3]
In the comment on l.Jes Fleurs du mal that Sainte-Beuve sends to Baudelaire in a
letter of 20, 1857, he finds this to say about the style of the booic " a curious
poetie gift and an almost precious lack of constraint in expression." Immediately
following: "with your pearling of the detail, with your Petrarchism of the hOlTible."
Cited in Etienne Charavay, A. de Vigny et Charles Baudelaire, candidats it
l'Acade.niefmnaise (Paris, 1879), p. 134. [J37a,4]
'"It seems to me that in many things you do not take yourself seriously enough."
Vigny to Baudelaire on January 27, 1862, apropos of Baudelaire's candidacy for
the Aeademie. Cited in Etienne Charavay, A. de Vigny et Charles Baudelaire.
candidats a l'Acadbniefranaise (Paris, 1879), pp. 100-101. [.J37a,5]
Jules Mouquet, in