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Les Fleurs du mal (French pronunciation: [le flœʁ dy mal]; English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867.
- Charles Baudelaire
- 1857
This is the definitive edition of Les Fleurs du mal and contains most everything except the "condemned" poems which you can find in Les Épaves (scraps). Fleursdumal.org is dedicated to the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), and in particular to Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil).
Les Fleurs du mal of Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire’s poetic masterpiece, the 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal, consists of 126 poems arranged in six sections of varying length. Baudelaire always insisted that the collection was not a “simple album” but had “a beginning and an end,” each poem revealing its full meaning only when read ...
The definitive online edition of this masterwork of French literature, Fleursdumal.org contains every poem of each edition of Les Fleurs du mal, together with multiple English translations — most of which are exclusive to this site and are now available in digital form for the first time ever.
Learn about the life and work of Charles Baudelaire, one of the most influential poets of the 19th century and the author of Les Fleurs du Mal. Explore his family background, his literary achievements, his translations, his criticism, and his legacy.
Les Fleurs du mal, collection of poems published in 1857 by Charles Baudelaire. A second edition, published in 1861, was greatly enlarged and enhanced but omitted six poems that had been banned. (These were first republished in 1866 in Belgium in the collection Les Épaves, but they remained banned.
modifier. Les Fleurs du mal est un recueil de poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, reprenant la quasi-totalité de sa production en vers de 1840 jusqu'à sa mort, survenue fin août 1867 . Publié le 21 juin 1857, le recueil scandalise aussitôt la société française. Son auteur subit un procès retentissant.
