Between spleen and ideal, a journey into Baudelaire's universe

2021-11-26T12:00:02.714Z

DECRYPTION - Black Venus, damned women, devil with a thousand faces, consoling servant, downgraded and miserable populate the world of the poet.

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Black beauty

Bright, fragrant, haunting black woman!

The poet in his company sinks into an exotic debauchery, far from the temptations of the Ideal.

Contemplating this “

spoiled child (…) rubbed (…) with benzoin

”, which he sometimes calls Dorothée, sometimes his beautiful Malabaraise, he travels, caught by the richly tropical picture of his slender pleasure.

When, with both eyes closed, on a warm autumn evening, / I breathe the scent of your warm breast, / I see happy shores unrolling / Let the fires of a monotonous sun dazzle

" ... Where Baudelaire did he take the love of this black Venus?

Undoubtedly in Mauritius, in 1841, where his trip to the Indies ended definitively.

To read also In Honfleur, Baudelaire in the clouds

In this unforeseen stopover, his memory recorded for

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