![]() ![]() Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes moeurs ("an insult to public decency"). La Mort (Death)Baudelaire dedicated the book to the poet Théophile Gautier, describing him as a parfait magicien des lettres françaises ("a perfect magician of French letters").The foreword to the volume, Au Lecteur ("To the Reader"), identifying Satan with the pseudonymous alchemist Hermes Trismegistus. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.This Bilingual English - French edition provides the original text by Baudelaire and its English translation by Cyril Scott.The initial publication of the book was arranged in six thematically segregated sections: 1. ![]() First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. ![]() Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. ![]()
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