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Figaro Hors-Série "Baudelaire, le spleen de la modernité"
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Cover of the Figaro Hors-Série Baudelaire.
Le Figaro
Sunday April 4, 1847. What did he want, this intrusive young man, passed by unexpectedly to spoil his working day?
Would he still stay for hours, chatting about art, nature, images, scrutinizing the studio to discover who knows what alchemy?
Would he ask for a new recommendation from the director of the
Revue des deux mondes, in
order to sell his prose there?
Not devoid of talent, of course.
But these men of letters put themselves on the stage when they claim to serve the art of others.
Not that he was disagreeable.
They had met several times at the painter Boissard, who organized the bohemian sessions of the Club des haschichins, in which the master was careful not to participate, and violin concerts, which he tasted.
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