Baudelaire, a writer who worshiped images

Baudelaire's “writings on art” have long been a joy reserved for those who had read everything else.

The first publication bringing together these disparate texts, which often appeared in reviews, in 1868, was entitled

Curiosités esthétiques

: des rarities, documents in appendix, the surplus of a work already so rich.

In the edition of the "Pléiade", due to the very learned Claude Pichois in 1976, they were found in the second volume.

At the very most, these descriptions of paintings and these essays drafted at the time of significant exhibitions were accorded the honor of having been the melting pot of Les

Petits Poèmes en pros

e.

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The edition proposed by Henri Scepi, professor at Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, turns everything upside down.

It starts there.

Only then come

The Artificial Heaven

and

The Flowers of Evil

.

The “Quarto” collection allows for a great luxury of images.

They are essential when it comes to showing the reader

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