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Les Fleurs du mal — Baudelaire’s collection, published on 25 June 1857 and condemned the same year
A hundred poems breaking with received style and scandalising at once. Thirteen were charged at the trial, six struck out by the court; Hugo wrote to the author that he was creating « un frisson nouveau ». The posthumous edition of 1868 holds more than a hundred and fifty. (Editorial synthesis)
Les Fleurs du mal was published on 25 June 1857. (source: Encyclopædia Universalis)
Recorded author of Les Fleurs du mal: Charles Baudelaire.
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