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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867).

Estimate2 000 - 2 500
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BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867).
L.A.S. "CB", January 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 is detained and awaiting trial for his republican activities]. Baudelaire has just had dinner with a friend [probably Charles Asselineau] whose leg is better and who thinks, as he does, that Poulet-Malassis's famous gift is a completely absurd idea... Then he gave some news of Parisian artistic and literary life: Théophile GAUTIER was to leave Le Moniteur and take up a post at the Beaux-Arts, Count de Nieuwerkerke [then director of the Imperial Museums] was to go to the Senate "and M. DELACROIX was to take over as director of the Museums. [...] Finally, to add insult to injury, F. Desnoyers claimed to inherit d'AUREVILLY au Pays. But his friend Ulysse Pic, now director of Le Pays, didn't think he could dare"...