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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867).

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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867).
L.A.S. "CB," Jan. 6, 1863, to POULET-MALASSIS at the Madelonnettes prison| 1 1/2 pages in-8, address, postmark, trace of red wax seal.
Letter to his imprisoned publisher.
[Poulet-Malassis was then detained and awaiting trial for his republican actions.]
Baudelaire has just dined with a friend [probably Charles Asselineau] whose leg is better and who thinks, as he does, that the famous gift from
Poulet-Malassis is a completely absurd idea... Then he gives some news of the artistic and literary life in Paris: Théophile GAUTIER would leave Le Moniteur and would receive functions at the Beaux-Arts, the Count of Nieuwerkerke [then director of the Imperial Museums] would go to the Senate " and M. DELACROIX would take the direction of the Museums. [...] Finally, to add insult to injury, F. Desnoyers claimed to inherit d'AUREVILLY in the country. But his friend Ulysse Pic, who had become director of the Pays, did not think he could dare to do this.