» Sed non satiata Never Satisfied » Avec ses vêtements ondoyants et nacrés With her pearly undulating dresses. » Tu mettrais l'univers entier dans ta ruelle You would take the entire world to bed with you.

» Les Phares The Beacons » La Muse malade The Sick Muse » La Muse vénale The Venal Muse » Le Mauvais Moine The Bad Monk » L'Ennemi The Enemy » Le Guignon Bad Luck » La Vie antérieure Past Life » Bohémiens en voyage Traveling Gypsies » L'Homme et la mer Man and the Sea » Don Juan aux enfers Don Juan in Hell » À Théodore de Banville To Théodore de Banville » Châtiment de l'orgeuil Punishment of Pride » La Beauté Beauty » L'Idéal The Ideal » La Géante The Giantess » Le Masque The Mask » Hymne à la Beauté Hymn to Beauty » Parfum exotique Exotic Perfume » La Chevelure Hair » Je t'adore à l'égal de la voûte nocturne I adore you as much as the nocturnal vault. Table of Contents » Dédicace Dedication » Au Lecteur To the Reader Spleen et idéal / Spleen and Ideal » Bénédiction Benediction » L'Albatros The Albatross » Élévation Elevation » Correspondances Correspondences » J'aime le souvenir de ces époques nues I love the memory of those naked epochs. Poems added to the third edition are indicated below by red guillemets like this ». However, though Banville and Asselineau meant well in assembling and editing the work, scholars today generally disagree with some of the choices made by the two friends, in particular with several of the poems they chose to include and with the way in which these poems altered the 'secret architecture' of the 1861 edition. (It lacked, however, the six poems censored from the first edition, since these were still illegal to print in France.) This 1868 edition was the only one authorized by Baudelaire's estate until his work fell into the public domain in 1917. Along with an introduction by the poet Théophile Gautier, this new edition contained all the poems of the 1861 edition, eleven poems from Les Épaves, plus a few others. In December 1868 the third edition of Les Fleurs du mal - volume 1 of the poet's complete works - went on sale in Paris. The complete works were to include Les Fleurs du mal, Les Paradis artificiels, Baudelaire's translations of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as prose poems, art criticism, and miscellaneous writings. Subsequently, Baudelaire's close friends the poet Théodore de Banville and the bibliophile Charles Asselineau sold the rights to his complete works to the publisher Michel Lévy. His friends, however, were not content to allow Baudelaire to fade into nothingness, and thus induced his mother to allow them to produce a comprehensive edition of his works. Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil 1868 EditionĪfter the death of Baudelaire on August 31, 1867, the rights to the poet's work reverted - ironically enough, given his relationship with her - to his aging mother.

Flowers of evil les fleurs du mal