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ice . ... [He] thinks he has been very good to Baudelaire ... in the complete dearth
of encouragement?'
217. Marcel Proust, "Ab out Baudelaire;' in Marcel Proust: A SelectionJrom His Miscellaneous
Wi-itingJ, tTans. Gerard Hopkins (London: Allan Wm gate, 1948), p. 192. Proust
cites the fourteenth stanza of "The Little Old Wo men;" Les Flew·s du mal (trans.
Howard), pp. 95-96.
218. Marcel Proust: A Selection, p. 204.
219. Ibid., p. 194.
220. Etienne Pivert de Senancour, Obermann, trans. anonymous (London: Philip Wellby,
1903), p. 231 Oetter 52). Senancour actually wrote "naturelle a l'honune."
221. This passage does not appear in the English translation of Joseph de Maistre, "TIle
Saint-Petersburg Dialogues," in The Works of Joseph de Mairtre, trans . Jack Lively
(New York: Macmillan, 1965).
222. Selected Leiters of Charles Baudelaire, p. 123.
223. Ibid., p. 151 (ca. MaTch 1860).
224. Baudelaire, Tile Prose Poems and "La Fanforlo,"p. 115.
225. Marcel Proust: A Selection, pp. 191, 190.
226. Ibid., p. 199. Proust's phrase, several times cited in succeeding entries of Convolute
J, is "un etrange sectimmement du temps."
227. Ibid., p. 199. Passages by Baudelaire are from Tile Complete Verse, pp. 236, 71.
228. Marcel ProUJt: A Selection, p. 202.
229. Ibid., pp. 203-204 (passages !i·om Viguy translated into English).
230. Thomas a Kempis, De imitatione Christi, in Thomas a Kempis, Opera Omnia, vol. 7
(Freiburg, 1904), p. 38. [R.T.l ln English in Tile Imitation of Christ, trans. anony­
mous (1504; rpt. London:]. M. Dent, 1910), pp. 38-39 ("On Love of Silence and
Solitude" ): "What canst thou see elsewhere that thou canst not see here? Lo here
heaven earth and all elements and of these all things are made."
23l. Baudelaire: J1 Self Portrait, p. 43.
232. Ibid., p. 54.
233. Ibid., p. 65 ("hastily written in order to eanl some money").
234. Ibid., p. 68.
235. Ibid., p. 95.
236. Ibid., p. 102.
237. Selected Letters ofCharies Baudelaire, p. 97.
238. Baudelaire: A Self Portrait, p. 172.
239. Ibid., p. 174.
240. Selected Lelten of Charles Baudelaire, p. 190.
241. Ibid., p. 195.
242. Tbe article, by ATthur Arnould, "Edgar Poe: 11homme, l'artiste et l'oeuvre;' appear-
ing in the April,June, andJuly issues, referred to Baudelaire's translations.
243. Baudelaire: A Self Portrait, p. 234.
244. Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire, p. 237.
245. Baudelai1·e as a LiteralY Critic, pp. 62, 63 (written in an album for Mme. Francine
Ledoux in 1851,just before the appearance of "L'Ecole pa"ienne").
246. Ibid., p. 74.
247. "Tile Painter of Modem Lift," p. 36.
248. See GS, vol. 1, p. 647n. [R.T.l ln English in Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baude­
laire;' Illuminations, p. 200nl7.
249. Baudelai.Te, Tlte Complete Verse, p. 258.
250. Baudelaire, 'My Heart Laid Bare," pp. I71, 173-174.