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Out of the heart of turbulent nineteenth-century Paris came Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal. Unapologetically bold, these poems cut to the core of life in modern Europe through frank explorations of sexuality, art, death, exoticism, and the city. Together the poems in Les Fleurs du Mal form a mysterious and shocking bouquet full of vivid themes, compelling and terrifying characters, and seductively beautiful language. Although some poems in this anthology were banned until the mid-twentieth century, Baudelaire’s powerful voice could not be forever silenced. Readers all over the world have embraced Les Fleurs du Mal as a literary tour de force, one that has forever changed the landscape of art and literature.
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Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
Croyant par de vils pleurs laver toutes nos taches.
Est tout vaporisé par ce savant chimiste.
C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent!
Sans horreur, à travers des ténèbres qui puent.
Que nous pressons bien fort comme une vieille ...
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