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71. See Tile Mirror of Art, p. 51. Baudelaire quotes from E. T A. Hoffmarm's Hodzst
zerstreute Gedanken, part of the "Kreisler papers)) on music, named after the author's
popular mouthpiece, Johannes Kreisler.
72. Baudelaire delivered the first of five public lectures in Bnlssels on May 2, 1864. It was
well received, but the other four were dismal failures.
73. This is a play on the famous words of Hemi. of Navarre. When he assumed the
French throne in 1593, as Henri Iv, he converted to Catholicism with the words,
"Paris vaut bien une messc,"
74. The Leiters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857, trans. Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), pp. 232-233 Oetter of July 13, 1857).
75. Baudelaire as a Literal) Critic) p. 7 Oetter of Febntary 18, 1860, to Armand Fraisse) .
76. "Elsewhere! To o far, too late, or never at all! I Of me you know nothing, I nothing of
you-you I whom I might have loved and who knew that too!" "In Passing;' Les
}i'leurJ du mal (trans. Howard), p. 98.
77. Selected Letters qfCharles Baudelaire, p. 175 (circa December 16, 1861, in reference to
Les Fleurs du ma.
78. Gide, ItPreface to LeJ Fleurs du mal/' in Pretexts (New York: Meridian, 1959), p. 257
(trans. Blanche A. Price).
79. lbid., pp. 257-258. Gide quotes at the beginning from Baudelaire's first draft of a
preface to Les Fleurs du mal. For the passages from Baudelaire's journals, see