"Hypocrite lecteur, — mon semblable, — mon frère !"
#OTD in 1857.
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal is published.
The 163 poems in Les Fleurs du Mal include : 110 in alexandrines, 33 in octosyllables, 4 in decasyllables, 1 in heptasyllables. Baudelaire remains stubbornly faithful to the alexandrine, which he uses in nearly seven poems out of ten. He needed a sufficiently ample metre to develop his thoughts.
Les Fleurs du mal at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61565
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