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Table of Contents » Dédicace Dedication » Au Lecteur To the Reader Spleen et idéal / Spleen and Ideal » Bénédiction Benediction » Le Soleil The Sun » Élévation Elevation » Correspondances Correspondences » J'aime le souvenir de ces époques nues I love the memory of those naked epochs. The six poems censored from the first edition are indicated below by red guillemets like this ». In a pattern now familiar, however, the trial only served to create a sensation, and by the following summer the initial printing of Les Fleurs du mal was sold out. On August 20th, a French court acknowledged the literary merit of the book as a whole but demanded that six poems be deleted on moral grounds. Within a month, the French government initiated an action against the author and the publisher, accusing them of outrages to public morality. Eleven hundred copies had been printed for sale, with an additional twenty copies hors commerce printed on fine paper. Les Fleurs du mal appeared on the bookshelves of Paris in June 1857. However, the definitive title was not to come until 1855, when 'fleurs du mal' was suggested by his friend Hippolypte Babou, and publication was not to come until 1857, when his friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis printed the first edition of 'ces fleurs maladives,' as Baudelaire wrote in the dedication. Several times he announced that he was going to publish a collection of poems, giving titles such as Les Lesbiennes (The Lesbians) and Les Limbes (Limbo).

A few scattered poems had appeared in journals and reviews, and Baudelaire had also achieved notoriety reciting his lurid verses aloud. Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil 1857 Editionīaudelaire's poetry was well-known long before it was collected in Les Fleurs du mal in 1857.

The flowers of evil les fleurs du mal