Auction in France: a farewell letter from Baudelaire made about 234,000 euros

A letter from the French poet Charles Baudelaire has made at auction, three times its estimated price. The document from 1845 was sold on Sunday for about 234,0

Auction in France: a farewell letter from Baudelaire made about 234,000 euros

A letter from the French poet Charles Baudelaire has made at auction, three times its estimated price. The document from 1845 was sold on Sunday for about 234,000 euros to a private collector, as the Osenat auction house in Fontainebleau said in Paris. The letter had been estimated at 60,000 to 80,000 euros.

In the Letter to his mistress Jeanne Duval announced Baudelaire on November 30. June, 1845, to want to kill. "If you receive this letter I shall be dead," he wrote, among other things. The then 24-Year-old staggered then, in fact, Supertotobet a stab with a knife, but this has no serious consequences: The author lived for 22 years before he died in 1867 from the effects of Syphilis.

Charles Baudelaire

Famous Baudelaire was in 1857, published a cycle of poems "The flowers of Evil" ("Les Fleurs du Mal"). The Band earned him a complaint for "violation of public morality". Baudelaire was influenced by his work, generations of French Poets.

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Date Of Update: 05 November 2018, 08:00
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