The Flowers of Evil pre MBS-SPIRITUALITY Pierre Birnbaum’s portrait depicts an

Pierre Birnbaum’s portrait depicts an extraordinary man whose political convictions were shaped and driven by his cultural background

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the Church of Sts Peter and Paul

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What would a school look like if it was designed with mental health in mind

The Flowers of Evil pre MBS-SPIRITUALITY Pierre Birnbaum’s portrait depicts anKnown to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an instant sensation earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously,