"Les épaves de Charles Baudelaire" by Charles Baudelaire is a collection of 23 poems published in 1866. This work gathers pieces deemed too controversial for his main collection, including poems condemned in an 1857 trial for offending public morality. Published in Belgium by his friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis while Baudelaire lived in exile, the collection contains banned verses and unpublished works. The book's title, meaning "The Wreckage," reflects its nature as salvaged fragments—literary castaways rejected from respectable publication yet preserved for a knowing audience. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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