Baudelaire poems fetch record price
AFP
PARIS- An original signed copy of Charles Baudelaire's brooding romantic poems "Les Fleurs de Mal" sold for a record 775,000 euros at an auction in Paris on Tuesday.
The 1857 edition went on sale with other belongings of the 19-century poet, including letters and a dictionary that he used to translate works of American writer Edgar Allen Poe.
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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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