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96. Baudelaire, The Complete verse) p. 362.
97. Baudelaire, Paris Spleen, p. 69.
98. Baudelaire: A Se!f-Portrait p. 135: "I haven't forgotten, near the city," and "TIle
greathearted servant of whom you were jealous. )) After his father's death in 1827)
Baudelaire lived for a time, along "vith his mother and nursemaid Mariette) in a
house at Neuilly) just outside Paris .
99. Baudelaire, The Mirror of Art, p. 123 ("The Salon of 1846").
100. Selected Lelter.r of Charles Baudelaire, p. 218.
101. 'j e ne pouvais aimer ... que si la mort melait son souffle a celui de la Beaute!" Cited
in Seilliere without references. Possibly an adaptation of a passage in "The Philoso­
phy of Composition": "Of all melancholy topics) what ... is the most melancholy?
Death . ... And when . .. is tlus most melancholy of topics most poetical? ... VVhen
it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death ... of a beautiful woman is ... the
most poetical topic in the world-and . . . the lips best suited for such a topic are
those of a bereaved lover." Poe, "171e Fall qfthe House qf Us her" and Other WritingJ
(Hannondsworth: Penguin, 1986) p. 486. (Thanks to Wi lliam Vance for this refer­
ence.)
102. Baudelaire, CorresjJOlldallce (Paris: Gallimard, 1973), vol. 1, p. 410 (July 9, 1857, to
Caroline Aupick) . [R.T] ln English in Selected Leiters of Charles Baudelaire, p. 97.
103. Baudelaire, Oeuvres completes (Paris: Pleiade, 1976), vol. 1, p. 102 C'Reve parisien") .
[R.T] In English in LeJ Fleurs du mal (trans. Howard) , p. 107: 'Architect of such
conceits II sent submissive seas f into the jewelled conduits f my will erected there."
104. Baudelaire: A Self-Portrait, pp. 26-27.
105. Jules Romains, Men of Good Will, vol. 1, trans. Wane B. We lls (New York: Knopf,
1946)) p. 396. Citation from Baudelaire's "Elevation:' Les Fleurs du mal (trans.
Howard), p. 14.
106. Baudelaire, Les Fleun du mal (trans. Howard) , pp. 88, 45.
107. Baudelaire, Oeuvres compldes) vol. 1, p. 203 ejc n'ai pas pour maltresse'l (R.T]
SaTah was Baudelaire's first mistress.
108. See "The Bad Glazier," in Paris SjJieen) pp. 12-14; and Gide's novel of 1914, Les
Caves du Vatican.! translated by Dorothy Bussy as Lcifcadio J Adventures (Gardcn City,
N.Y.: Doubleday, 1953), p. 183, where one fmds the theory of the acte gmtuit put
into practice by Lafcadio's wantoll murder of a pious old fool.
109. Baudelaire, LeJ Fleurs du lIlal (trans. Howard), p. 141.
1l0. Flower.> of Evil (trarls. Fowlie) , p. 107.
111. Citations from Les Fleun du mal (trans. Howard) , pp. 77, 164) 107, 156. "Delplune et
Hippolyte" is the subtitle of the longer of tlle two poems entitled "Femmes dam­
nees."
112. Baudelaire, Les FleurJ du mal (trans. Howard), p. 73.
113. Ibid., p. 72 ("A l'heure au les chastes etoiles / Ferment leurs yeux appesantis").
114, Ibid., p. 97 ("crispe comme un extravagant").
115. Baudelaire) 17ze Comj)lete Tine) p. 159.
116. Baudelaire, Les Flew'S du lIlal (trans. Howard), p. 156.
117. Ibid., p. 41.
118. The Works of Stefon Ge01ge, trans. Olga Marx and Ernst Morwitz (1949; rpt. New
York: AMS Press, 1966), p. 6 (Odes, 1890).
119. Baudelaire, Les FleurJ du mal (trans . Howard) , p. 116 ("TIle Solitary's Wine") .
Compare tlle passage on Baudelaire and Berg in Theodor W Adorno, Alban Berg:
Master r!l tlu: Smallest Link) trans. Juliane Brand and Christopher Hailey (Cam­
bridge: Canlbridge University Press, 1991), p. 120.
120. J. w. Goetile, Selected Vene, trans. David Luke (New York: Penguin, 1964), p. 75.