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10. The MilTor of Art: Critical Studies by Charles Baudelaire, trans. Jonathan Mayne (Lon­
don: Phaidon, 1955), pp. 282-283. The phrase "those spires 'whose fingers point to
heavenlll (lnoutrant du doigt Ie cieO) translates a line from Wordsworth's poem "The
Excursion" (book 6, line 19), itself a citation from Coleridge. See The .NIirror f!! Art,
p. 282n2.
11. Baudelaire, Paris Spleen, trans. Louise Vc'1rese (New York: New Directions, 1947), p. 8
("To Every Man His Chimera").
12. Albert Thibaudet, French LiteratureJrom 1795 to Ow' Era, trans . Charles Lam Mark­
mann (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1967), p. 289.
13. G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens (1906; rpt. New York: Schocken, 1965), p. 4Z
Reference is to the period of Dickens' youth when he worked in a factory pasting
labels on blacking-bottles. In Benjamin's French edition, "That wild word" is trans­
lated as "Ce mot baroque."
14. Ibid., p. 60.
15. Valery, Leonardo, Poe, Mal/aruu!, p. 207.
16. In August 1857, after the publication of Les Fleun du mal) Baudelaire and his publish­
ers were tried and found guilty of offending public morality; they were fined and six
poems in the collection were suppressed. The verdict cites the "indecent realism" of
the images.
17. Valery, Leonardo) Poe) Mal/arme) p. 195.
18. Baudelaire as a Litera!)1 Critic, pp. 318-319 (''Advice to Young Men of Letters"). DArt
romalltique was originally published in 1869 as volume 3 of the first collected edition
of the poet's works ; the title was evidently supplied by the editors.
19. Baudelaire as a Literal)' CriNe, p. 69 ("The Respectable Drama and Novel").
20. Ibid., p. 73 ("The Pagan School").
21. Ibid., p. 77.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid., p. 76. 111e passage conveys Baudelaire's disgust with certain classical notions of
beauty, suggested by la plastique, "sculpted form" or "fine shaping."
24. Ibid., pp. 241-242.
25. Ibid., p. 251.
26. Ibid., p. 263.
27. Ibid., p. 262.
28. Ibid., pp. 265-266 ("111eodore de Banville").
29. Ibid., p. 278.
30. Ibiel., pp. 285-286.
31. Ibid., p. 289.
32. Ibid., p. 14Z
33. Ibid., pp. 144, 146.
34. Ibid., p. 146.
35. Ibid., p. 56.
36. Ibid., pp. 51-52, 52-53.
37. Thid., p. 58 ("Pierre Dupont").
38. Ibid., p. 205.
39. Ibid., p. 222 (,IRichard Wagner and Tannhiiuseru1 Paris").
110. Baudelaire, "I'Iu: Painter qf Modern Lift " and Other Essays, trans . Jonathan Mayne
(1964; rpt. New Yo rk: Da Capo, 1986), p. 206. The reference that follows is toJules
Michelet's iiistoire de France au seizii:Jne siede (1855).
4l. Baudelaire, IIPainters and Etchers,') in Art in Paris, 1845-1862, trans . Jonathan_
Maync (London: Phaidon, 1965), pp. 220-221. CompareJ2,1.