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someone of an outlandish profession, like a hunter, a sailor, or a taxidermist. But
by an artist . .. , never." Ch. B., OeuvreJ, vol. 2, p. 217 ("Salon de 1859"). llis is
a sort of evocation of the "amazing travelers:''"' [J40,5]
Gauloiserie in Baudelaire: "In its most widely accepted sense, the word Frenchman'
means vaudevilliste . ... Everything that towers or plunges, above or below
him, causes him prudently to take to his heels. The sublime always affects him like
a riot, and he opens his Moliere only in fear and trembling-and because someone
has persuaded him that Moliere is an amusing author.H Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2,
p. HI ("Salon de 1846: De M. Horace Vernet").'99 [J40,6]
Baudelaire knows, in the Salon de 1846," "the fatal law of propensities." Ch. B.,
Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 114.20 0
[J40,7]
Re the title Les Limbes , compare the passage from the "Salon de 1846" on
Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers: This little poem of an interior . .. seems
somehow to exhale the heady scent of a house of ill repute, which quickly enough
guides our thoughts toward the fathomless limbo of sadness." eh. B., Oeuvres,
vol. 2, p. 85.201 [J40,8]
Apropos a depiction of Samson by Decamps, in the Salon de 1845" : "Samson,
that ancient cousin of Hercules and Baron von Miinchhausen." eh. B., Oeuvres,
vol. 2, p. 24.202 [J40a,1]
Thus, France was diverted from its natural course, as Baudelaire has shown, to
become a vehicle of the despiritualization-the bestialization ? -of folk and
state." Peter Klassen, Baudelaire (Weimar