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Two editions of Fleurs du mal were published in Baudelaire's lifetime — one in 1857 and an expanded edition in 1861. "Scraps" and censored poems were collected in Les Épaves in 1866. After Baudelaire died the following year, a "definitive" edition appeared in 1868.
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Les Promesses d'un visage
J'aime, ô pâle beauté, tes sourcils surbaissés,
Tes yeux, qui sont d'accord avec tes noirs cheveux,
Suivre l'espoir qu'en toi nous avons excité,
Tu trouveras au bout de deux beaux seins bien lourds,
Une riche toison qui, vraiment, est la soeur
— Charles Baudelaire
The Promises of a Face
I love your elliptical eyebrows, my pale beauty,
Your eyes, in harmony with your black hair,
To follow the hope we have excited in you,
You will find at the tips of two heavy breasts
A rich fleece, which truly is the sister
— Geoffrey Wagner, Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire (NY: Grove Press, 1974) |

