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Written twenty years after the fratricidal June Days that ended the ideal or "brotherly" [[Revolutions of 1848 in France|revolution of 1848]], Baudelaire makes no attempts at trying to reform society he has grown up in but realizes the horrors of the progressing modernizing of Paris. In poems such as "[[The Eyes of the Poor]]" where he writes (after witnessing an impoverished family looking in on a new cafe): "Not only was I moved by that family of eyes, but I felt a little ashamed of our glasses and decanters, larger than our thirst...", showing his acknowledgment of the poor conditions in his city, and also showing the feelings of despair that accompanies the acknowledgment. Written twenty years after the fratricidal June Days that ended the ideal or "brotherly" [[Revolutions of 1848 in France|revolution of 1848]], Baudelaire makes no attempts at trying to reform society he has grown up in but realizes the horrors of the progressing modernizing of Paris. In poems such as "[[The Eyes of the Poor]]" where he writes (after witnessing an impoverished family looking in on a new cafe): "Not only was I moved by that family of eyes, but I felt a little ashamed of our glasses and decanters, larger than our thirst...", showing his acknowledgment of the poor conditions in his city, and also showing the feelings of despair that accompanies the acknowledgment.
- +==French TOC==
-== TOC ==+*''À [[Arsène Houssaye]]''
 +* I. ''[[L'Étranger (Baudelaire)|L'Étranger]]''
 +* II. ''[[Le Désespoir de la vieille]]''
 +* III. ''[[Le Confiteor de l'artiste]]''
 +* IV. ''[[Un plaisant]]''
 +* V. ''[[La Chambre double]]''
 +* VI. ''[[Chacun sa chimère]]''
 +* VII. ''[[Le Fou et la Vénus]]''
 +* VIII. ''[[Le Chien et le Flacon]]''
 +* IX. ''[[Le Mauvais Vitrier]]''
 +* X. ''[[À une heure du matin]]''
 +* XI. ''[[La Femme sauvage et la Petite-maîtresse]]''
 +* XII. ''[[Les Foules]]''
 +* XIII. ''[[Les Veuves]]''
 +* XIV. ''[[Le Vieux Saltimbanque]]''
 +* XV. ''[[Le Gâteau]]''
 +* XVI. ''[[L'Horloge]]''
 +* XVII. ''[[Un hémisphère dans une chevelure]]''
 +* XVIII. ''[[L'Invitation au voyage]]''
 +* XIX. ''[[Le Joujou du pauvre]]''
 +* XX. ''[[Les Dons des fées]]''
 +* XXI. ''[[Les Tentations ou Eros, Plutus et la Gloire]]''
 +* XXII. ''[[Le Crépuscule du soir (Baudelaire)|Le Crépuscule du soir]]''
 +* XXIII. ''[[La Solitude]]''
 +* XXIV. ''[[Les Projets]]''
 +* XXV. ''[[La Belle Dorothée]]''
 +* XXVI. ''[[Les Yeux des pauvres]]''
 +* XXVII. ''[[Une mort héroïque]]''
 +* XXVIII. ''[[La Fausse Monnaie]]''
 +* XXIX. ''[[Le Joueur généreux]]''
 +* XXX. ''[[La Corde (Baudelaire)|La Corde]]''
 +* XXXI. ''[[Les Vocations]]''
 +* XXXII. ''[[Le Thyrse]]''
 +* XXXIII. ''[[Enivrez-vous]]''
 +* XXXIV. ''[[Déjà !]]''
 +* XXXV. ''[[Les Fenêtres]]''
 +* XXXVI. ''[[Le Désir de peindre]]''
 +* XXXVII. ''[[Les Bienfaits de la lune]]''
 +* XXXVIII. ''[[Laquelle est la vraie ?]]''
 +* XXXIX. ''[[Un cheval de race]]''
 +* LX. ''[[Le Miroir (Baudelaire)|Le Miroir]]''
 +* XLI. ''[[Le Port (Baudelaire)|Le Port]]''
 +* XLII. ''[[Portraits de maîtresses]]''
 +* XLIII. ''[[Le Galant Tireur]]''
 +* XLIV. ''[[La Soupe et les Nuages]]''
 +* XLV. ''[[Le Tir et le Cimetière]]''
 +* XLVI. ''[[Perte d'auréole]]''
 +* XLVII. ''[[Mademoiselle Bistouri]]''
 +* XLVIII. ''[[Any where out of the world]]''
 +* XLIX. ''[[Assommons les Pauvres !]]''
 +* L. ''[[Les Bons Chiens]]''
 +* ''[[Épilogue (Baudelaire)|Épilogue]]''.
 +== English TOC ==
*[[The Stranger]] *[[The Stranger]]
*[[The Old Woman's Despair]] *[[The Old Woman's Despair]]

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Le spleen de Paris, also known as Paris Spleen or Petits Poèmes en prose, is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Twenty individual poems were published in La Presse in 1862. The collection was published in 1869, posthumously by his sister and it is related with the modernist literary movement.

Baudelaire mentions he had read Aloysius Bertrand's Gaspard de la nuit at least twenty times before starting this work. Though inspired by Bertrand, Baudelaire's prose poems were based on Parisian contemporary life instead of the medieval background which Bertrand employed. He told about his work: "These are the flowers of evil again, but with more freedom, much more details, and much more mockery"

These poems have no particular order, have no beginning and no end and they can be read like thoughts or short stories in a stream of consciousness style. The point of the poems is "to capture the beauty of life in the modern city", using what Jean-Paul Sartre has labeled as being his existential outlook on his surroundings.

Written twenty years after the fratricidal June Days that ended the ideal or "brotherly" revolution of 1848, Baudelaire makes no attempts at trying to reform society he has grown up in but realizes the horrors of the progressing modernizing of Paris. In poems such as "The Eyes of the Poor" where he writes (after witnessing an impoverished family looking in on a new cafe): "Not only was I moved by that family of eyes, but I felt a little ashamed of our glasses and decanters, larger than our thirst...", showing his acknowledgment of the poor conditions in his city, and also showing the feelings of despair that accompanies the acknowledgment.

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