Baudelaire's Friday 13

Tony Curzon Price · 2015-11-15 · ← All articles
Armand Séguin Fleurs du mal
Armand Séguin Fleurs du mal

Les Fleurs du Mal, 1892. Source: Wikimedia Commons

This morning over breakfast, at a hotel in Prague, I picked the Fleurs du Mal off my Kindle to immerse myself in the Paris of my dreams - Baudelaire's Paris. It opened by meaningful coincidence on L'Examen de Minuit: Baudelaire's account of his own Friday 13.