Flowers of Evil
- 1857 Fleurs du mal
- 1861 Fleurs du mal
- 1866 Les Épaves
- 1868 Fleurs du mal
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Links
- Litteratura.com (Extensive Baudelaire resource in French)
- Horizon Noir (French resource)
- Baudelaire Microhistory (the life of Baudelaire day by day)
- Flowers of Bad ("False" translation of Fleurs du mal)
- W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire studies
- Baudelaire's Grave in Paris
- The Poem of Hashish (Aleister Crowley translation into English)
- Nicholas Moore: 31 Translations of Spleen (English)
- Fleurs du mal translated by Cat Nilan (English)
- Baudelaire on Wikipedia (English)
- 20 English Translations of Le Balcon
- Watercolors inspired by Fleurs du mal
- Baudelaire in Czech
- Baudelaire in Portuguese
- Mag4.net (Excellent Arthur Rimbaud site, in French)
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Lola de Valence
Entre tant de beautés que partout on peut voir,
Je contemple bien, amis, que le désir balance;
Mais on voit scintiller en Lola de Valence
Le charme inattendu d'un bijou rose et noir.
— Charles Baudelaire
Lola of Valencia
Among such beauties as one can see everywhere
I understand, my friends, that desire hesitates;
But one sees sparkling in Lola of Valencia
The unexpected charm of a black and rose jewel.
— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
On Manet's Picture "Lola of Valencia"
Amongst the myriad flowers on beauty's stem
It's hard to choose. Such crowds there are of them
But Lola burns with unexpected fuel
The radiance of a black and rosy jewel.
— Roy Campbell, Poems of Baudelaire (New York: Pantheon Books, 1952)
