The Arcades Project - Operi

Pierre de Fayis. "La Fanfarlo' appears . .. on January 1, 1847, sibrned by Charles
Dufays." Ch. B., Vcrs l'etl'Ouves, eel. Jules Mou'!uet (Paris, 1929), p. 47. [J38,2]
The following sonnet from the body of work by Prarond is attributed by Mouquet
to Baudelaire:
Born in the mud to a nameless jade\
The child grew up speaking argot;
By the age often\ he had graduated from the sewers;
Grown, he would sell his sister-is a jack-of-all-trades.
His hack has the curve of an old flying buttress;
He can sniff out the way to every cheap bordello;
His look is a mixture of arrogance and cllllning;
He's the one to serve as watchdog for rioters.
Wax-coated string keeps his thin soles in place;
On his uncovered pallet a dirty wench laughs
To think of her husband deceived hy unchaste Paris,
Plebeian orator of the stockroom,
He talks politics with the corner grocer,
Here is what's called an elf'ant de Paris.
Charles Baudelaire, Vers retrouves, ed. Jules Mouquet (Paris,
104.
1929), pp. 103-
[J38,3]
Freund contends ""that the musicality of the poem does not present itself as a
specific . . . technical quality but is rather the authentic ethos of the poet . . , .
Musicality is the form taken by l'art pour l'art in poetry." Cajetan Freund, Der
Vcrs Baudelaires (Munich, 1927), p. 46. [J38,4]
On the puhlication of poems under the title Les Limbes in Le Messager de
l'Assemblee, April 9, 1851: "'A small booklet entitled La Presse de 1848 contains
the following: "Today we see announced in L 'Echo des marchands de vin a collection
of poems called Les Limbes. These are without doubt socialist poems and,
consequently, bad poems. Yet another fellow has become a disciple of Proudhon
through either too much or too little ignorance. m A. de la Fineliere and Georges
Descaux, Charles Baudelaire (series entitled Essais de bibliographie contemporaine,
vol. 1) (Paris , 1868), p. 12. [J3B,S]
Modernity-anticlassical and classical. Anticlassical: as antithesis to the classical
period. Classical: as heroic fulfillment of the epoch that puts its stamp on its
expressIOn. [J3Ba,l]
There is evidently a connection between Baudelaire's unfavorable reception in
Belgium, his reputation as a police spy there, and the letter to Le Figaro concerning
the banquet for Victor HugO.'SI [J38a,2]