BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)

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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)
Autograph letter signed to Julien LEMER. Brussels, Friday 23 February 1865 4 p. in-4, wine-leek half-maroquin folder, case lined with the same. A few small tears and tears with loss of a few words, traces of folds, paper restorations, case faded. Autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire to Julien Lemer, bookseller and political journalist. The poet asks him to take care of his affairs, as he considers himself incompetent in the matter: "[...] not only because of my ordinary apathy as regards my interests, but also because of a certain timidity which makes me indefi nitely postpone affairs [...]." He details the works he would like to place with publishers and booksellers: "I wish to sell four books of which I am sending you the summary: Les Paradis artifi ciels (so badly edited a few years ago, that it can be considered an unpublished book. I find the book good as it is, I will not add to it, I will not touch it up); Reflections on some of my contemporaries divided into two parts, or two volumes. This is not, as you might think, a bundle of newspaper articles, although these mostly unknown articles have appeared at very long intervals, they are linked together by a single and systematic thought. I have a rather strong desire to show what I have been able to do in the matter of criticism. Eni n, the 4th Pauvre Belgique! A volume. This one is not finished." Baudelaire further discusses his diffi cult relations with publishers: "Michel Lévy resents me for having given up the Fleurs du Mal and the Spleen of Paris to Hetzel. Hetzel is in a bad mood against me (and he has the right to be), because I have not yet delivered Les Fleurs du Mal and Le Spleen de Paris, which are however finished but which I am still working on". Unfortunately, Baudelaire will not be successful in Belgium. At the beginning of 1866, he is repatriated to Paris because of his health. He died there on 31 August 1867. BIBLIOGRAPHY Baudelaire, Lettres 1841-1866, Paris, 1906.
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