In the 1850s, ancien and Haussmannian Paris clash, giving birth to a violent disjunction. "Retreat Academic Muse ," Baudelaire commands, "I don\'t care about that old stutterer." With.
The steam-driven, gaslit, electrically-charged poet is born.
The laurel crown has been discarded; the pastoral poet is dead; classical lyric poetry is dead.
At that moment in time, an other present is born, a new history, like Baudelaire\'s poet freely abandoning his halo on the macadam.
In the 1850s, ancien and Haussmannian Paris clash, giving birth to a violent disjunction