Les Martyrs ridicules
Dans un estaminet noir d'aspect, à la devanture brumeuse, aux carreaux opaques, se mouvaient de jeunes hommes, dont, dès l'abord, il n'était pas facile de déterminer la condition. Quelques-uns étaient revêtus de la vareuse artiste ou parasite ; sur quelques autres se moulaient des coachman aux doublures déchirées, d'une coupe flasque et indécise. Plusieurs vêtements trahissaient, au contraire, le ciseau de Renard ou de Dusautoy.Presque tous ceux qui étaient là portaient la chevelure inculte et longue.Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.
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Charles Baudelaire
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (UK: ; US: ; French: ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life.
His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist.
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