Paris capitale du XIXe siècle. Islam Images that reflect his curiosity

Images that reflect his curiosity about others

based on the material traces

all those whom accidents - namely those of the toilet (For fate is sibylline like a sphinx and more cunning and more lively than a weasel) - risk striking one day in their flesh or in their soul: a shoelace that trails (one runs) could cause a tragedy

He received advice from Matisse and was passionate about the Romanesque

Samir Aounallah

Paris capitale du XIXe siècle. Islam Images that reflect his curiosityBaudelaire's genius, which finds its nourishment in melancholy, is an allegorical genius. For the first time in Baudelaire's work, Paris becomes the object of lyrical poetry. This local poetry is the opposite of all poetry of the soil. The gaze that the allegorical genius casts upon the city betrays, rather, a feeling of profound alienation. This is the gaze of a flaneur, whose way of life conceals behind a benevolent mirage the distress of the future