On the heights of Notre-Dame, a gargoyle has turned.
With its bat wings, its attractive face, its small Bakelite breasts with erect tips, this sphinx with the demon tail is watching someone… We turn the page.
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Charles Baudelaire appears on the cornice, facing this Parisian panorama worthy of a 19th century engraving.
Equipped with a pair of white wings, the poet of
Les Fleurs du Mal
holds a writer's quill in his hand.
On the other, he covers his eyes.
The moment is dizzying.
Then he throws himself into the void.
The black chimera follows him in the air.
The dreamlike nature of this sequence sparkles like a graphic poem.
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Baudelaire appears as an Icarus who would have burnt his wings in the sun of the devil's beauty of his muse Jeanne Duval.
The poet wakes up.
The dark beauty sleeps at his side, abandoned.
On the top of a clock, a black cat observes the couple lying in these sheets still crumpled by the feast of the evening.
On the edge of the bed, scribbled pages.
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