This book, whose title: Flowers of Evil, - says it all, is coated with a cold and sinister beauty and has been furiously and patience. Moreover, evidence of its value is positive in all the evil they said. "The book puts people in a rage," Baudelaire wrote to his mother, July 9, 1857. The first edition of Les Fleurs du Mal had just been published and the ensuing trial was going to agree with the poet: six pieces were condemned on the grounds that "necessarily led to the excitement of the senses". In 1861 appeared the second edition of Les Fleurs du Mal, Baudelaire, shortly before his death, said: "Should we tell you that in this atrocious book, I put all my heart, all my love, my religion (disguised ), all my hatred? It is true that I write will not, I swear my gods that it is a book of pure art of mimicry, juggling, and as I will lie through his teeth "(letter Ancelle of February 18, 1866).