BAUDELAIRE CHARLES: (1821-1868) French Poet,... Lot 412

BAUDELAIRE CHARLES: (1821-1868) French Poet, a pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. An excellent and rare autograph letter incorporating an autograph poem, unsigned, one page, 12mo, n.p., Tuesday 3rd November, n.y., in French. Baudelaire addresses a short message to an unidentified woman stating `Vous m´avez envoyé des vers sans papillon, permettez-moi de vous offrir des fleurs sans vers, et pour vous prouver que mon gout a su comprendre le votre, mettez-les ce soir à votre boutonniere.´, (`You sent me verses without a personal note, allow me to offer you flowers without verses, and to prove that my taste has understood yours, put them in your buttonhole this evening.´) At the base of the page Baudelaire states or entitles his poem `Pas toujours la Nature embellit la Beauté´, (`Not always Nature embellishes Beauty´), the Nature and the Beauty is a subject Baudelaire would write about more extensively, and beneath writes a four verse poem `…….C´est donc lui la beauté, car c´est moi la nature. - Si toujours la nature embellit la beauté….´ Autograph verses by Baudelaire are extremely rare and sought after, and this piece elegantly combines a letter and a poem, for which only this manuscript is known. With blank integral leaf. Small overall minor age wear, very small clipped corner to the upper left and very small tear to the bottom edge. G