Five Prose Poems

Charles Baudelaire

Le miroir

Un homme épouvantable entre et se regarde dans la glace.

« Pourquoi vous regardez-vous au miroir, puisque vous ne pouvez
vous y voir qu’avec déplaisir?»

Charles Baudelaire was a poet, essayist, art critic, and translator widely regarded as a giant of 19th-century French culture.

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