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127. Bourdin's article appeared in his father-in"law's paper on July 5, 1857, nine days
128.
Baudelaire, The Mirror of Art, p. 120.
Baudelaire, The Prose Poems and «La FaJ'fforlo," trans. Rosemary Lloyd (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 44 ("The Crowds").
"C'est un genie sans frontieres." The last word is translated as "limits" in Baudelaire
as a Literary GriNe, p. 241 ("Reflections on Some afMy Contemporaries))).
Hugo, Poems, pp. 190, 192, 193 (in the sequence titled Le.r Orientales).
The Poems of Victor Hugo (New York: Little, Brown, 1909), pp. 175, 177 (trans.
Henry Carrington) .
Baudelaire: A Self Portrait, p. 96.
before 111ierry's favorable notice. It has been suggested that the conservative paper
Ie Figaro was at least partly responsible for the charges brought against Baudelaire.
SeeJ27a,3.
Probably a reference to the warning cut into stone above the Gate of Rell: "Lasciate
ague speranza voi ch'intrate" ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter here"). See Dante
Alighieri, Th e Infimo, trans. John Ciardi (New York: New American Library, 1954),
p. 42 (Canto 3).
129. "Reve parisien" is dedicated to Guys .
130. See the end of Baudelaire's third draft for a preface to Les Flew'S du mal, in The
Complete Verse) p. 389. Re: "the whole piece about Andromache."
131. Baudelaire, Oeuvres completes, vol. 2, p. 68. [R.T] From "Notes sur Les Liaisons
dangereuses" (ca. 1864). "Sand est inferieure a Sade." CompareJ49a,1.
132. Baudelaire, Oeuvres compldes, vol. 1, p. 5 ("Au Lecteur"). [R.T.] In English in Tile
Complete /l,;rse, p. 53.
133. Baudelaire, "The Exposition Universelle, 1855," in The Mirror qf Art, pp. 213-214.
134. Baudelaire, Oeuvres complde.r, vol. 2, p. 132. [R.T] In English in Baudelaire as a
Literary Critic, p. 238 ("Reflections on Some of My Contemporaries").
135. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare,"p. 178.
136. Sainte-Beuve's article "Sur les prochaines elections de l'Academie" (On the Forth­
coming Academy Elections) contained a rather condescending section on Baude­
laire as an "exemplary candidate, a nice young man."
137. The Apoaypha, Revised Standard Version (New York: Oxford University Press,
1977), p. 181 (40.8).
138. The dates are erroneous. Qyestions de critique (2nd cd.) appeared in 1889; Essais sur
la litterature contemporaine, in 1892; Nouveaux e.rsais sur la litterature contemjJoraiJle, in
1895; and Evolution de la pohie /;'rique en France, in 1894. [R ..... q
139. BaudelmTe, "My Heart Laid Bare," p. 177 ("My Heart Laid Bare"). Belamin's
phrase at the end of this entry is "Das Historische ins Intime projiziert."
140. Baudelaire, Oeuvres completes, vol. 1, p. 194. [R.T] The notes in question were
prepared by Baudelaire for the trial against Les Fleurs du mal.
14l. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare,"p. 195 ("My Heart Laid Bare").
142. Baudelaire, Flowers qfEvil (trans. Fowlie), p. 85 ("Destruction").
143. See Eugene Cn'pet, Charles Baudelait'e ( p aris: Leon Vanier, 1906), pp. 288-289.
When Baudelaire, out walking with Asselineau on the boulevard, wants to have
dinner at the early hour of 5 P.M., Asselineau, who has a head cold, assents on
condition they go to his place first to get another handkerchief. Baudelaire, protest­
ing that Asselineau must still have two or tlu"ee places left on his present handker­
chief sufficient to blow his nose during dinner, holds out his hand and cries, "Show
Ine !"
144. Theophile Gautier, A History qf Romantic£s1ll., trans. anonymous (1909; rpt. New
York: Howard Fertig, 1988), pp. 301, 300.