Lot no. 70
Charles BAUDELAIRE. Autograph piece, "Paquet pour Julien Lemer. Poëmes en prose" 13 lines on a page in-4 (small cut in the inner margin without missing text). Here Baudelaire lists the eleven prose poems composed for the most part in Brussels and kept by him in that city, which he was to send to Julien Lemer, whom he had chosen as his literary agent. However, the shipment was delayed and finally delivered to Gervais Charpentier, manager of the Revue nationale et étrangère, during Baudelaire's brief stay in Paris in July 1865.
The poems are entitled: Perte d'auréole, Mademoiselle Bistouri, Any where out of the World, Assommons les pauvres, Les bienfaits de la Lune, Laquelle est la vraie?, La soupe et les nuages, Le galant tireur, Le tir et le cimetière, Portraits de maîtresses, Les bons chiens, all part of Spleen de Paris (1869). Six are preceded on this manuscript by a cross, drawn in red pencil, with the words: publié (in pencil in Charpentier's hand). These are the ones he selected and published in the Revue nationale et étrangère from 31 August to 11 October 1867. Mademoiselle Bistouri, on the other hand, is marked unpublishable; and four: Perte d'auréole, Assommons les pauvres, La Soupe et les nuages, Le galant tireur are without indication. At the bottom of the page, Charpentier also noted the address: Baudelaire 28 rue de la Montagne, Brussels.
Former Armand Godoy collection (12 October 1988, no. 19).
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