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Baudelaire invites you to a Mystery Voyage Posted by Hichem on Mar 1, 2011
In his “Commentaires des fleurs du mal“, Robert-Benoît Chérix says: “L’invitation au voyage évoque une terre par une série de touches discrètes, mais suffisantes pour l’identifier.” Meaning: “The ‘Invitation to the Journey’ evokes a land through a series of discrete strokes, but enough to identify it.” Would you be able to guess which country Charles Baudelaire had à…
L’ennemi (The Enemy) — Charles Baudelaire, “Les Fleurs du Mal” Posted by Hichem on Nov 12, 2010
Three years before he joined l’autre monde (the Other World), Baudelaire had this to say about his vision of reality, and its levels of existence: – “J’ai quelques convictions, dans un sens plus élevé, et qui ne peut pas être compris par les gens de mon temps.” Meaning: – “I have a few convictions, in a…
Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) — Charles Baudelaire Posted by Hichem on Aug 26, 2010
Est-ce que vous l’avez remarqué? (Did you notice it?) Ici, au French Blog, nous aimons les fleurs (Here, in the French Blog, we like flowers), and that you can see mostly through les articles of Jennie, especially “Les Fleurs!” and “Les Tournesols.” Today, we invite you to discover (or re-discover) a classic of French poésie (poetry), extracted from “Les Fleurs du…