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"Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
Nature, Baudelaire says, is ugly—and art is what saves us from it. This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life. To paint the face is to reject nature’s chaos and choose artifice—freely, proudly, and exquisitely.
Price: $8.00
Pages: 12
Publisher: ERIS
Imprint: ERIS
Series: ERIS gems
Publication Date:
18 November 2025
Trim Size: 7.70 X 4.30 in
ISBN: 9781967751150
Format: Paperback
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Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a poet, critic, and provocateur who dragged beauty into the modern age. His masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, scandalized Paris and reshaped poetry with its fusion of decadence, despair, and ecstasy.