![]() ![]() Also included in this volume is the collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire entitled “Paris Spleen” which was first published posthumously in 1869. In this edition we reproduce the 1861 edition along with the six censored poems. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire’s work but ordered that six poems in particular should be banned from subsequent publication. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book’s publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. ![]() Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” or “The Flowers of Evil” was embroiled in controversy. ![]()
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