Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal with author's notes.
Illustration by Armand Rassenfosse for Les Fleurs du Mal. Collection King Baudouin Foundation.
Illustration of Les Fleurs du Mal by Carlos Schwabe, 1900
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat, 1863
Portrait of Baudelaire at 23 years old, painted in 1844 by Émile Deroy (1820–1846)
The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal with author's notes
Illustration cover for Les Épaves, by Baudelaire's friend Félicien Rops