The Arcades Project - Operi

July 10, 1861, on the planned de luxe edition: " Where is the mama who will give
Les Fleurs du mal as a present to her children? And where is the papa?" Lettres ii
sa mere, p. 186. [146a,2]
His eyes strained with working in the Louvre: ""Two bloodshot goggle-eyes." Lettres
a sa mere, p. 191. [146a,3]
On Les Miserables-August 11, 1862 : '"The book is disgusting and clumsy. On this
score, rve shown that 1 possess the art of lying." Lettres Ct sa mere, p. 212.240
[146a,4]
June 3, 1863. He speaks of Paris, " where 1 have been bored for months, as no one
was ever bored before." Lettres ii sa mere, p. 218.241 [146a,5]
Conclusion of "Crepuscule du soir": the muse herself, who hlms away from the
poet to whisper words of inspiration to the air. [146a,6]
Baudelaire planned a "refutation of the preface to the life of Caesar hy N apoleon
HI." [146a,7]
In a letter of May 4, 1865, Baudelaire mentions to his mother an "immensely long"
article appearing in La Revue ge1'1nanique. Lettres Cr, sa mere, p. 260.:H2 [J46a,8]
March 5, 1866: "I like nothing so much as to be alone. But that is impossible; and
it seems that the Baudelaire school exists." Lettres ii sa mere, p. 301. H:l [J46a,9]
December 23, 1865: "If 1 can ever regain the frcshness and energy I've sometimes
enjoyed, rll assuage my wrath in horrible hooks. I'd like to set the entire human
race against me. That offers a pleasure that could console me for everything."
LeUres ii so, mere, p. 278,244 [j46a,lO)
"As a man advances through life . .. ,what the world has agreed to call 'beauty'
loses much of its importance . . . . Henceforth beauty will be no more than the
promise of happiness . ... Beauty will he the form which promises the most kindness,
the most loyalty to an oath, the most honesty in fulfilling a pledge, the most
subtlety in understanding relationships" (p. 424). And a little further on, with
refercnce to "L'Ecole pa'ienne," to which these lines written in an album constitute
a note: 'How could I possihly succeed in convincing a young scatterhrain that no
sensual desire is mingled with the irresistible sympathy 1 feel for old women-for
those creatures who have suffered greatly through their lovers ? their husbands,
their children, and also through their own mistakes?" Ch. B., Oeuvres completes,
ed. Le Dantec, vol. 2, pp. 424-425.2.15 [147, 1]
"For some time, . .. it [has seemed] t.o me that I am having a bad dream, that I am
hurtling through space and that a multitude of wooden, golden, Hnd silver idols
are falling wit.h me, t.umbling after me, humping into me, and breaking my head