Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal introduced beauty in ugliness, the poet as urban flâneur
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Les Fleurs du Mal (Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows album)
Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal introduced beauty in ugliness, the poet as urban flâneur
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