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Sunday, at a sale in Fontainebleau, a text of the French poet's youth announcing his intention to commit suicide flew for a sum three times greater than the estimate.
Auction success! A youth letter from the French poet Charles Baudelaire announcing his intention to commit suicide sold Sunday at 234,000 euros at a sale organized by the Osenat house of missives of the author of Flowers of Evil. The highlight of the sale, this letter from Baudelaire, dated June 1845, to the address of his mistress Jeanne Duval, was estimated between 60,000 and 80,000 euros, three times less than the sum reached. It will now be part of a private French collection, said the auction house, located in Fontainebleau, near Paris.
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"When Miss Jeanne Lemer gives you this letter, I will be dead (…) I kill myself because I can not live anymore, that the fatigue of falling asleep and the fatigue of waking me up are unbearable," writes the poet . He will stab himself without serious consequences. He is 24 years old and will live another 22 years. He died in 1867, plagued by syphilis.
Other Baudelaire texts are on sale. Letters from Barbey d'Aurevilly, Delacroix, Hugo, Manet, addressed to him, are also collected in this collection. The letter of the painter Eugène Delacroix has been preempted by the museum Delacroix for an amount of 7540 euros, announced the house Osenat in a statement.
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