Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe, brothers of spleen

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Fleurs du mal

artificial paradises.

Figaro Hors-Série “Baudelaire, the spleen of modernity”.

Le Figaro

This August 1851, Charles Baudelaire traded in his black coat for a workman's blouse and patent-leather shoes, a singular contrast that he meditated for a long time while taking care of his hands, because one should not appear too popular or too dressed, but very simply aristocratic. In Paris, it's the season for Americans on a spree and Baudelaire was told that a New World man of letters staying on Boulevard des Capucines would have frequented the late Edgar Allan Poe. Dressed in this way, hat on his head, the poet climbs up to the writer's hotel room, which he discovers in boxer shorts and shirt, in the middle of a flotilla of shoes that he tries on with the assistance. of a shoemaker. The feverish eye, the trembling lip, trying

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