Charles BAUDELAIRE - Signed autograph letter
Charles Baudelaire
Autograph letter signed "CB" to the painter Arthur Stevens. (Paris) August 15, 1863; 1 page in-8 °.
Baudelaire organizes his next departure for Belgium according to the day of Eugène DELACROIX's funeral. His plan is to visit "the rich private galleries", to give lectures there, to sell articles to the newspaper "L'Independence belge", the great Brussels daily run by Léon Bérardi, and to negotiate the publication of his critical works, but he does not have enough to pay for his trip: "My dear Stevens, I am leaving. I would have been happy to see you today, and you can guess why. My conversation with M. Bérardi will be embarrassed and bizarre. Will I leave tomorrow morning, or will I not leave until the day after tomorrow, after Delacroix's funeral? I do not know. What is decided is my desire to have an explanation with Mr. Bérardi. If, during this time, you have an answer from your friend's side, keep it for me, unless I am writing to you from Brussels… "
Letter which appears in the Correspondence (Pléiade), volume II, page 312
For his first conference in Brussels, Baudelaire takes as subject Eugène Delacroix whose death he evokes and goes on to read his study "The work and the life of Eugène Delacroix". The report by journalist Gustave Frédérix, critic for "Belgian Independence", is rather favorable to him. Unfortunately the continuation of the conferences did not have the hoped-for public, the artistic circle then decided to stop the costs. Baudelaire goes from disillusionment to disillusionment, he worries and repels, his anger against Belgium turns into an unhealthy aversion.
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