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which creeps into the life of artists as into their works." Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2,
p. 211.276 [J52,6]
Baudelaire's use of the concept "allegory" is not always entirely sure: "the . . .
allegory of the spider weaving her web between the arm and the line of a fisherman,
whose impatience never causes him to stir!' Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 204
("Qyelques caricaturistes etrangers").277 [J52a,1]
Against the proposition '''The genius makes his way." Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2,
p. 203 ("Quelques caricaturistes etraugers"). [J52a,2]
About Gavarni: ""Like all men of letters-being a man of letters himself-he is
slightly tainted with corruption. Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 199 (""Quelques carieaturistes
franais").27 H [J52a,3]
In "'Quelques caricaturistes franais," on a drawing by Daumier dealing with
cholera: "True to its ironic custom in times of great calamity and political upheaval,
the sky of Paris is superb; it is quite white and incandescent with heat. . ..
The square is deserted and like an oven-more desolate, even, than a populous
square after a riot." Ch. B., Oeuvres, vol. 2, p. 193.279 [J52a,4)
In Le Globe of March 15, 1830, Duvergier de Hauranne writes of Les Consolations:
"It is not at all certain that the Posillipo has not inspired M. Sainte-Beuve as
much as his Boulevard d'Enfer" « cited in Sainte-Beuve, Les Consolations [Paris,
1863],> p. 114). [J52a,5]
Critique of Joseph Delorme and Les Consolations by Farcy, a July insurgent who
fell in battle shortly after composing these lines: "'Lihertinism is poetic when it is a
transport of impassioned principle in us, when it is audacious philosophy, but not
when it is merely a furtive aberration, a shameful confession. This state of mind
... ill accords . .. with the poet, who should always go along unaffected, with head
held high, and who requires enthusiasm, or the bitter depths of passion." From
the manuscript pul)lished by C. A. Sainte-Beuve in Les Consolations: Pensees
d'aoil, (Paris, 1863), p. 125. [J52a,6]
From the critique of Sainte-Beuve by Farcy: "If the crowd is intolerable to him,
the vastness of space oppresses him even more, a situation that is less poetic. He
has not shown the pride or the range to take command of all this nature, to listen
to it, understand it, and render its grand spectacles." "'He was right," comments
Sainte-Beuve (p. 126). C. A. Sainte-Beuve, Les Consolations: Pensees d'aout
[Poesie, de Sainte-Heave, part 2] (Paris, 1863), p. 125. [J52a,7]
Baudelaire's oeuvre has perhaps gained importance-moral as well as literarythrough
the fact that he left no novel. [J52a,8]