Pounding on the " ceiling " reveals that it is in fact a trap door ; the children escape through it only to find themselves in the charred remains of the Baudelaire Mansion.

Even prior to the release of the thirteenth book, there was speculation that Beatrice was the Baudelaires ' mother, based on the fact that a list of anagrams in The Hostile Hospital includes " Carrie E. Abelabudite " an anagram for Beatrice Baudelaire.

As seen in the preface to the collection, addressed to his publisher, Arsène Houssaye, Baudelaire attempted to write a text that was very accessible to a reader while pulling the most appealing aspects of both prose and poetry and combining them into the revolutionary genre of prose poetry.

Baudelaire ’ s tone throughout the preface, “ The Dog and the Vial ” as well as other poems throughout Le Spleen de Paris seem to illustrate Baudelaire ’ s opinions of superiority over his readers.

In the preface to Le Spleen de Paris, Baudelaire describes that modernity requires a new language, " a miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm or rhyme, supple enough and striking enough to suit lyrical movements of the soul, undulations of reverie, the flip-flops of consciousness ," and in this sense, Le Spleen de Paris gives life to modern language.

Cladel made a reputation in a limited circle by his first book, Les Martyrs ridicules ( 1862 ), a novel for which Charles Baudelaire, whose literary disciple Cladel was, wrote a preface.

* Charles Baudelaire — A member of the club mentioned above, who in Les paradis artificiels ( 1860 ) described the effects of opium and hashish.

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 ); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

Despite the apparent evils of Baudelaire, author of Les fleurs du mal, he had once remarked, in regard to the artist, that " The more a man cultivates the arts, the less randy he becomes ... Only the brute is good at coupling, and copulation is the lyricism of the masses.

In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal ( The Flowers of Evil, 1857 ) by Charles Baudelaire.

Verlaine's concept of the poète maudit in turn borrows from Baudelaire, who opened his collection Les fleurs du mal with the poem Bénédiction, which describes a poet whose internal serenity remains undisturbed by the contempt of the people surrounding him.

* Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) French poet ( Les Fleurs du mal )

Les Fleurs du mal ( English: The Flowers of Evil ) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.

On the other hand, upon reading " The Swan " or " Le Cygne " from Les Fleurs du mal, Victor Hugo announced that Baudelaire had created " un nouveau frisson " ( a new shudder, a new thrill ) in literature.

* Baudelaire is more sympathetic to Cain in his poem " Abel et Caïn " in the collection Les Fleurs du mal, where he depicts Cain as representing all the downtrodden people of the world.

" Les Fleurs du Mal " by Charles Baudelaire and " Leaves of Grass " by Walt Whitman appear as cybernetic extensions of themselves, owned by the protagonist and referred to as " Flowers " and " Leaves " respectively.

In this way, it resembles the French poetry of Charles Baudelaire ( in particular Les Litanies de Satan ), more than it resembles an inversion of the Roman Catholic Mass.

Defert claimed that he told his lover that " If it turns out to be AIDS, your last books are just like Les fleurs du mal, because, you know, Baudelaire wrote Les fleurs du mal about his own sexual life and syphilis.

French poet and author Charles Baudelaire translated the novel in 1857 as Les Aventures d ' Arthur Gordon Pym.

* Poems of Baudelaire: A Translation of Les Fleurs du Mal.

Les paradis artificiels ( Artificial Paradises ) is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish.

* Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire

( Ironically, Bénichou never wrote a major work on Baudelaire, though he published a number of significant essays on the author of Les Fleurs du mal.

* In Charles Baudelaire's ( Les fleurs du mal ) poem XXVI entitled sed non satiata Baudelaire compares the charms of his beloved to the pleasures of the night and Constantia wine: “ Even more than Constantia, than opium, than Nuits, I prefer the elixer of your mouth, where love performs its slow dance .”

The traditional French sonnet form was however significantly modified by Baudelaire, who used 32 different forms of sonnet with non-traditional rhyme patterns to great effect in his Les Fleurs du mal.

The repressions and upheavals of 1848 resulted in massive censorship of literature, which did not bode well for Baudelaire ’ s perhaps most famous work, Les Fleurs du Mal.

* Les paradis artificiels by Charles Baudelaire

" In his review, Barbey d ' Aurevilly compared Huysmans to Baudelaire, recalling: " After Les Fleurs du mal I told Baudelaire it only remains for you to choose between the muzzle of the pistol and the foot of the Cross.

In order to enable the reader to realise that he is embarking on a " dangerous philosophical journey ", Lautréamont uses stylistic means of identification with the reader, a procedure which author Baudelaire already used in his introduction of Les Fleurs du Mal.

Important literary precursors of Modernism were: Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 1821 – 81 ) ( Crime and Punishment ( 1866 ), The Brothers Karamazov ( 1880 )); Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 92 ) ( Leaves of Grass ) ( 1855 – 91 ); Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) ( Les Fleurs du mal ), Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ) ( Illuminations, 1874 ); August Strindberg ( 1849 – 1912 ), especially his later plays, including, the trilogy To Damascus 1898 – 1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ).

* " Harmonie du soir " by Charles Baudelaire ( imperfect pantoum, in French ; also includes four English translations )

* Cimetière du Montparnasse – the Montparnasse Cemetery, where Charles Baudelaire, Constantin Brâncuşi, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, and Susan Sontag are buried

It was praised by Maxime du Camp and Charles Baudelaire, who referred to the sense of the uncanny, as though the rocks make " a portal open to infinity ... a wound of white birds, and the solitude!

Part of the fascination of his writing is the way it combines the rigorous symmetries that led Roland Barthes to praise him as an epitome of structuralism ( exemplified, for instance, by the architectural scheme of Passage de Milan or the calendrical structure of L ' emploi du temps ) with a lyrical sensibility more akin to Baudelaire than to Robbe-Grillet.

In 2010, British composer Tony Hymas composed " De l ' origine du monde " a musical suite dedicated to the picture as well as relations between Courbet and La Commune de Paris, and based on texts by Courbet himself, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Dupont and Christian Tarting.

The writers and dandies Baudelaire and Jules Barbey d ' Aurevilly also had some influence, but the most important model was the notorious aristocratic aesthete Robert de Montesquiou, who was also the basis for Baron de Charlus in Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu.

The naturalist tendency to see life without illusions and to dwell on its more depressing and sordid aspects appears in an intensified degree in the immensely influential poetry of Charles Baudelaire, but with profoundly romantic elements derived from the Byronic myth of the anti-hero and the romantic poet, and the world-weariness of the " mal du siècle ", etc.

" The dark and romantic story by Baudelaire that HIM is referring to is most likely " Flowers of Evil " because the song also says, " Pretty, like a flower on a tomb.

*" Flowers of Evil ", Charles Baudelaire

* The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire ( Wesleyan, 2006 )

* 1909 Translation: The Flowers of Evil ( Charles Baudelaire )

Like “ Flowers of Evil ,” it wasn ’ t until much later that Paris Spleen was fully appreciated for what it was, a masterpiece that “ brought the style of the prose poem to the broader republics of the people .” That being said, just four years after Arthur Rimbaud used Baudelaire ’ s work as a foundation for his poems, as he considered Baudelaire a great poet and pioneer of prose.