Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Paris’ Musée d’Orsay has invited fashion and culture icons to create personalized tributes to honor Charles Baudelaire, best known for Les Fleurs de Mal (The Flowers of Evil), the controversial anthology published in 1857. Baudelarian Voices was inspired by the poet’s would-be bicentennial birthday. (AnotherMag)

Known to Baudelaire specialist Yves Le Dantec, this copy of Les Fleurs du mal features a ninth unpublished manuscript verse following the poem "Les Bijoux".

The next two sales of autographs from the Aristophil Collection include a few items that have never come up for auction before, but also a collection of historic objects and some treasures, paintings and drawings.

At this new sale in the Aristophil collection series, the poet's reflections on sentiment about nature were as captivating as Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil).

His "suicide note", the most poignant manuscript in a rich collection of documents evoking the accursed poet at Fontainebleau, is both a cry of distress and a declaration of love to his muse, Jeanne Duval. "I am killing myself because I can no longer...

Under the leadership of its director, Mathieu Deldicque, the Musée Condé-Château de Chantilly is staging the very first exhibition in France devoted to the famous cabinetmaker. An opportunity to admire André-Charles Boulle's finest creations and identify his pieces more accurately.

This previously unidentified canvas is the only known painted sketch of Charles Meynier's masterpiece Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l’île de Calypso (Telemachus, Urged on by Mentor, Leaves Calypso's Island), which earned him an auction record.

Explorer Paul Marcoy's account of a trip to Peru inspired this vivid canvas full of exotic birds.

An exciting exhibition examining the reign of Charles VII at the musée de Cluny in Paris sheds light on the missing link between International Gothic and the French Renaissance, a period richer and more complex than it might seem.

Nineteenth-century literature was in the spotlight, dominated by a miniature manuscript by the great Charlotte Brontë.