On 1st June 1866, in the Revue du xixe siècle, Baudelaire publishes two prose poems under the title « Petits poèmes lycanthropes ». The allusion to Pétrus Borel (1809-1859), head of the Petit Cénacle and known as « the lycanthrope», is clear. The formula « Petits poèmes lycanthropes » invites to reread Le Spleen de Paris in the light of the works by Borel, author of a poetry collection, Rhapsodies (1832), of a volume of cruel novels, Champavert (1833), and of a noir fiction, Madame Putiphar (1839).
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques