First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire.
Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand\'s "Gaspard de la Nuit - Fantaisies la mani re de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night - Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot," Baudelaire remarked that he had read Bertrand\'s work at least twenty times for starting "Paris Spleen." A commentary on Parisian contemporary life, Baudelaire remarked on his work that "These are the.
First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire