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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)

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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867)

Autograph poem, To the Earl of................| ¾ page in-8.
Copy of a sonnet by François Maynard (1582-1646).
Baudelaire did not write the name of the dedicatee of the epistle, Carmain, replacing it with seven dots.
"Count, the world awaits your last farewell|
Our feet have come to the edge of the grave,
Cease to love the Court, and take you away from a place
where malice reigns and goodness succumbs"..............................................................................................................................
[Not collected in Mon coeur mis à nu, this document was reproduced in The Autograph Manuscript. Special issue devoted to
Charles Baudelaire (Blaizot, 1927, p. 42)].