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Les Fleurs du mal

Poetry

A volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1857 and gathering nearly all of his poetry written from 1840 until his death. Its frank treatment of sex, decadence and death led to an obscenity prosecution in France that same year, which resulted in the removal of six poems from the collection, and it is now regarded as a landmark of French verse and an influence on the Symbolist and Decadent movements that followed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Original Language
French 1
Composed, From (Year)
1857 1
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Source Les Fleurs du mal (Wikipedia)

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Lyric Poetry, Genres
Source Les Fleurs du mal (Wikipedia)
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    Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
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    Les Fleurs du mal (French pronunciation: [le flœʁ dy mal]; English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all of Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist-including painting-and modernist movements.
  • Authored By: Charles Baudelaire, Lead section, authorship
    Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
  • In Genre: Lyric Poetry, Infobox, Genre field
    Lyric poetry
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