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deavor to maintain a Juste milieu.)) Cited in Daumier: 120 Great Lithographs, ed.
Charles F. Ramus (New York: Dover, 1978), p. xi.
14. Marx, I'he Economic and Philo.rophic Manuscript.r of 1844, trans. Martin Milligan (New
York: International Publishers, 1964), pp. 155-156.
15. Paul Valery, liThe Place of Baudelaire," in Leonardo, Poe, Mallamle, trans. Malcolm
Cowley andJames R Lawler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), p. 203.
16. A rather fantastic house near Versailles which Balzac built in 1838 and left in 1840.
17, Baudelaire, Pans Spleen, trans. Louise Varese (New Yo rk: New Directions, 1947),
p. 33.
18. Honore de Balzac, Modeste Mignon, trans. anon. (New York: Fred de Fau, 1900),
p. 68.
19. Georg Sinnnel, ne PhiloJophy of Money, 2nd ed., trans. Tom Bottomore and David
Frisby (London: Routledge, 1990), pp. 459-462.
20. Joseph Courad, "ne Shadow-Line" and I'wo Other Tales (New York: Anchor, 1959),
pp. 189, 193.
21. Jeanjacques Rousseau, The Cor!fi:ssions, trans, J, M, Cohen (Baltimore: Penguin,
1953), p. 280.
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1. Pierre de Ronsard, Oeuvres complites, vol. 2 (paris: Pleiade, 1976), p. 282. [RT]
2. Paul Valery, liThe Place of Baudelaire," in Leonardo, Poe, Mallarrne, trans. Malcohn
Cowley and James R Lawler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), pp. 195,
197-198.
3, Le poncif: the banal, the trite; a conventional piece of writing, a cliche. Baudelaire
writes in his notebook: "10 create a new commonplace [Po1l.Clf] -that's genius. I
must create a conunonplacc." "My Heart Laid Bare" and Other Prose fVj'itings, trans.
Norman Cameron (1950; rpt. New York: Haskell House, 1975), p. 168 ("Fusees;' no.
20). See also Baudelaire's "Salon of 1846," section 10,
4. Baudelaire's article "Richard Wagner and Tannhiiuser in Paris" appeared on April l,
1861.
5. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare/' p. 198: "Praise the cult of images (my great, my
unique, my primitive passion)" ("My Heart Laid Bare"). Primitive paJsion can be
translated as "earliest passion." Baudelaire's note could refer to the importance that
pictures (images) had for him when he was a child; his father was an art lover and
amateur painter. (He died when Baudelaire was six.)
6. Baudelaire as a Litera?J Critic, trans. Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Jr.
(University Park: Pelllisylvania State University Press, 1964), pp. 53, 52. Pierre Dupont's
Chants et chansons appeared in 1851. Baudelaire vvrites to his guardian Ancelle,
on March 5, 1852, that Louis Napoleon's coup d'etat of the previous December had
"physically depoliticized" him (Baudelaire as a Litera?J Critic, p, 50),
7. Baudelaire had appeared on the barricades during the three-day revolution ofFebruary
1848.
8. In order to save Baudelaire from "the sewers of Paris," and to punish him for his
monetary extravagance, his stepfather, General Aupick, sent rum on a sea voyage to
Calcutta. Mter departing inJune 1841, and surviving a hurricane off the Cape of
Good Hope, Baudelaire disembarked in Reunion and returned to France in February
1842.
9. Selected Leiters of Charles Baudelaire, trans. Rosemary Lloyd (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1986), p. 142.