[BAUDELAIRE (CHARLES) (1821-1867)] Autograph letter signed from Charles Baudelaire to Armand Fraisse Brussels, April 5, 1865, 2 pages in-8, preserved envelope stamped with the address : " Monsieur Armand Fraisse. Rue Duhamel. Lyon ". Framed letter and envelope. Letter about the condemned pieces addressed to the journalist Armand Fraisse that Baudelaire appreciated. On Armand Fraisse, see the previous lot. Absent from the two collections of correspondence cited in the previous lot and notably Pichois and Ziegler (ed.). Baudelaire, Correspondance II, 1860-1866 (Paris, 1973). Subsequently published in Baudelaire, Nouvelles lettres (2000), p. 96. With the publication of his Fleurs du Mal, in 1857, Baudelaire was sued for offending public decency. He will be condemned to pay a fine of 300 francs and forced to withdraw six poems from the collection, among the most beautiful. The censored pieces will be rehabilitated only in 1949. Baudelaire writes: "A bookseller proposed me here to publish a book on [Baudelaire's underlining] the Flowers of Evil, that is to say a book composed of the condemned pieces, of the history of the trial and of all the remarkable articles related to the question; you will be in good company, if however the thing is done. I have already found letters and articles by Sainte Beuve, Custine, d'Aurevilly, Gautier etc. ". Armand Fraisse is kept informed: "The Poems in prose will appear in the second part of this year at Hetzel, under the title: Le Spleen de Paris, to parallel the Fleurs du Mal. The fragments that have appeared were arranged in no particular order. There will be a particular clarification in the volume. n 1857, Baudelaire was prosecuted for offending public decency. He will be condemned to pay a fine of 300 francs and forced to withdraw six poems from the collection, among the most beautiful. The censored pieces will be rehabilitated only in 1949. Baudelaire writes: "A bookseller proposed me here to publish a book on [Baudelaire's underlining] the Flowers of Evil, that is to say a book composed of the condemned pieces, of the history of the trial and of all the remarkable articles related to the question; you will be in good company, if however the thing is done. I have already found letters and articles by Sainte Beuve, Custine, d'Aurevilly, Gautier etc. ". Armand Fraisse is kept informed: "The Poems in prose will appear in the second part of this year at Hetzel, under the title: Le Spleen de Paris, to parallel the Fleurs du Mal. The fragments that have appeared were arranged in no particular order. There will be in the volume a particular clarification. Provenance: Private collection