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325. Baudelaire, Oeuvres completes, voL 1, p. 89 ("Les Petites Vieilles"). [R.T] In English
in Th e Complete v"rse, p. 180.
326. Baudelaire, l),e Complete v"rse, p. 197.
327. Or, alternatively: TIle figure of impotence is the key to Baudelaire's solitude.
328. Mayeux and the ragpicker (chfffonnier philosophe) are characters created by the artist
Charles Travies de Villers (1804-1859), discussed by Baudelaire in "Qlelques cari­
caturistes fram;ais" (Some French Caricaturists). Thomas Vr reloque is a creation of
Gavarni, and the Bonapartist Ratapoil is a creation of Daumier. See hl,9, The
Parisian urchin Gavroche is a character in Hugo's Les Miserables.
329. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal (trans . Howard), p. 62.
330. "Girls" is in English in the original. SeeJ66,8.
331. Friedrich Nietzsche, Dieji-Ohliche w,s",nsc/wjl (book 4, no. 295). [R.T] l'n English in
JoyfUL Wisdom, trans. Thomas Common (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960), p. 229.
332. Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or, vol. 1, trans. D. F. Swenson and L. M. Swenson, rev.
H. AJohnson (1944; rpt. New York: Anchor, 1959), p. 36. Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du
mal (traIls. HOWaI'd) , p. 75.
333. Kierkegaard, Either/Or, voL 1, p. 41.
334. Ibid., p. 281.
335. Ibid., p. 287.
336. Ibid.
337. Ibid., pp. 221-222.
338. Kierkegaard, Either/Or, voL 2, trans. Walter Lowrie, rev. Howard A Johnson
(1944; rpt. New York: Anchor, 1959), p. 164.
339. Ibid., p. 234. On the "strange sectioning of time;' seeJ44,5.
340. Baudelaire, TIre Mirror of Art, p. 267.
341. Gottfried Keller, "lad und Dichter;' Werke, voL 1 (Zurich, 1971), p. 385. [R.T.]
342. Engels, "Socialism: Utopian and ScientificJJ (excerpt from Anti-Diiltring first published
in French in 1880), in Marx and Engels, Basic Writings on Politics and Philosophy}
ed. Lewis Feuer (New Yo rk: Anchor, 1959), p. 77 (trans . E. Aveling) . See W15a,1.
343. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. Lewis White Beck (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1949), p. 258.
344. Baudelaire, Oeuvres completes, ed. Pichois, vol. 1, p. 76 ("Le Gout du neant"). [R.T.]
In English in TI" Complete Verse, p. 160.
345, "TIle Saint-Petersburg Dialogues," in The fl'orRs qlJoseph de Maistre, trans. Jack
Lively (New York: Macmillan, 1965), Pl'. 203-204.
346. Ibid., p. 253.
347. Ibid., pp. 268-269.
348. Ibid., p. 276.
349. "A dire mystery.))
350. Th e Works ofJosej)h de Maistre, p. 254.
351. Baudelaire, TI" Flowers of Evil, p. 145 ("Destnrction;' trans. C. F. MacIntyre).
352. A term popularized by the National Socialists beginuing in the early 1920s.
353. Bertolt Brecht, Gesmmnelte Werke, 8 vols. (Frankfurt aru Main: 1967), vol. 4,
pp. 271-273 ("Ich bin ein Dreck"). [R.T.] lu English in Brecht, Poems: 1913-1956,
ed.Jolm Willett and Ralph Manheinl (New York: Methuen, 1987), pp. 135-136 ("A
Reader for Those Who Live in Cities ").
354. Lorettes was a term originated by the jOUTIla1ist Nestor Roqueplan in 1840 for ladies
of easy virtue, many of whom lived in the reconstructed quarter surrounding the
church of Notre-Dame de Lorette,
355. Jules Renard, Joltrnal inidit, 1887-1895 (paris, 1925), p. 11. [R.T.] Citation above
from Baudelaire's "The IlTcmediablc," in Tile ComjJ/ete f7erse, p. 166. TI1C conversa-