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The French Circus of the “Poupée de Cire” (Wax Doll) Posted by Hichem on Jan 3, 2013
The French young lady (well, at the time, she still was) whose voice you are about to hear is not yet another poupée qui dit “non, non, non, non“ (a doll who says “no, no, no,no.”) In fact, she is a bit more and in the same time less than that. She is a poupée…
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…