![]() Poems added to the second edition are indicated below by red guillemets like this ». ![]() This edition, now considered definitive, lacked the six poems censored by the French government but contained a new subdivision ("Tableaux parisiens"), thirty-five new poems, and a portrait of the author by Félix Bracquemond. Readers spent three francs to purchase the new edition, of which fifteen hundred copies had been printed (plus a few hors commerce on fine paper). The second edition of Les Fleurs du mal entered the bookshops of Paris in the first week of February 1861. In addition, he composed new poems to add to the collection, including several works such as "Le Cygne" and "Le Voyage" which are today regarded as masterpieces. ![]() Anxious to keep his poems in print, Baudelaire agitated for several years for another edition to be published. The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal sold out within a year of its publication, thanks in part to the succès de scandale created by the government's obscenity trial against the book. Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil 1861 Edition ![]()
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