Baudelaire poems fetch record price

The price for the book, equivalent to 1.17 million dollars, was more than five times its estimated value before the sale. Another copy of the book fetched 560,000 euros in 2007, sales expert Francois Valleriaux told AFP.
A letter titled "Du suicide" (about suicide), written by Baudelaire about an attempt to take his own life in 1845, went for 225,000 euros -- a record for a letter by the poet.
The sale at the Drouot auction house in Paris raked in a total of more than four million euros overall, including sales charges.
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