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145. Baudelaire, CotTespondance (Paris: Gallirnard, 1973), vol. 1, p. 30 (to his mother,
probably written in Paris, 1845). [R.T.] lu English in Baudelaire: A Set/Portrait,
p. 32.
146. Baudelaire had written, on March 4, 1863, "So you really do want to compromise
roy dignity in a social set in which you've compromised your ownr Selected Letters
ofCharies Baudelaire, p. 193. For his letter of March 6, see pp. 193-194. The female
admirer was Frederique O'Connell, a painter whom Baudelaire mentions in the
"Salons" of 1846 and 1859.
147. Baudelaire: A Self-Portmit, p. 133. The fine was reduced from 300 francs to 50
francs as a result of this letter.
148. Baudelaire, "The Painter a/Modern Lifo,"p. 156 ("On the Essence of Laughter").
149. Ibid., p. 150.
150. Ibid., p. 157.
151. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic, p. 43.
152. Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems, p. 478 ("The Man of the Crowd").
153. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic, p. 127. Compare the classic distinction between imagi­
nation and fancy in Chapters 4 and 13 of Coleridge's Biographia Litemria (1817).
154. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic) p. 131. The sentence is a viTtUal quotation from Poe's
"TIle Poetic Principle:'
155. Baudelaire, The Mirror of Art, p. 251.
156. Ibid., p. 268. The journal in question was Le Siecle.
157. Ibid., p. 273. Pro domo: for his own cause.
158. Ibid., p. 274 (liCe ... je ne sais quoi de malicieux").
159. Alfred de Vigny, Oeuvres completes, vol. 1 (paris, 1883), pp. 251-252. [R.T.]
160. Baudelaire, The Complete verse, p. 297 ("au plus noir de l'abilne, I Je vois distincte­
ment des mondes singuliers").
161. Baudelaire, The Mirror ?! Art, p. 286. Sursum, ad sidera: upward, to the stars. Vitai
lampada: torch of life.
162. Ibid., p. 283.
163. Ibid., p. 233.
164. Ibid., p. 224.
165. Baudelaire, Intimate Journals, pp. 29, 31. Baudelaire's word for both "ecstasy" and
"intoxication" is ivresse.
166. Ibid., p. 33.
167. Ibid., p. 32.
168. Ibid., pp. 73-74.
169. Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare,"pp. 155, 197.
170. Baudelaire: A Self-Portrait, p. 87.
171. Selected Letters ofChades Baudelaire, p. 159 (October 11, 1860).
172. The Letters of Victor Hugo, vol. 2, cd. Paul Meurice (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin,
1898), p. 152.
173. Baudelaire as a Literal)' Critic, p. 315.
174. Baudelaire, In timate Journals, p. 39.
175. Baudelaire as a LiteralY Critic, p. 307. Baudelaire's article first appeared November
24, 1845, in Le Corsaire-Satan and was republished a yeal' later in L'EdlO.
176. Baudelaire, The Mirror qf Art, p. 124. "Politics of art" translates Kunstpolitik.
177. Attributed to Poulet-Malassis by Marcel Ruff in his edition of Baudelaire, Oeuvres
complete .. (Paris: Seuil, 1968), p. 50 (where the entire sheet is reproduced).
178. Baudelaire, Paris Spleen, p. 8.
179. Baudelaire, The Mirror of Art, p. 118.
180. "A. Strange Man's Dream"-pocm in LeJ Fleurs du mal.