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'''Artist:''' Charles Pierre Baudelaire | '''Artist:''' Charles Pierre Baudelaire | ||
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'''Location:''' France, Paris | '''Location:''' France, Paris | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' ''Les Fleurs du Mal'': (English: ''The Flowers of Evil'' (1909)). Collection of poems, consisting largely of poems of decadence, eroticism and spiritual revolution first published in 1857. Further editions of the collection prepared by Baudelaire were published in 1861 and posthumously in 1866. Each were greatly enlarged but omitted the banned poems. These were published however in 1866 in Belgium in a collection entitled ''Les Epaves'' (''The Waifs''). In France the ban of the six poems was not lifted until 1949. | '''Description of Artwork:''' ''Les Fleurs du Mal'': (English: ''The Flowers of Evil'' (1909)). Collection of poems, consisting largely of poems of decadence, eroticism and spiritual revolution first published in 1857. Further editions of the collection prepared by Baudelaire were published in 1861 and posthumously in 1866. Each were greatly enlarged but omitted the banned poems. These were published, however, in 1866 in Belgium in a collection entitled ''Les Epaves'' (''The Waifs''). In France the ban of the six poems was not lifted until 1949. | ||
'''The Incident:''' The author, publisher and printer were prosecuted under the Second Empire for an "outrage aux bonnes moeurs" (outrage to public decency). | '''The Incident:''' The author, publisher and printer were prosecuted under the Second Empire for an "outrage aux bonnes moeurs" (outrage to public decency). | ||
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