During Le Figaro's live broadcast on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, the singer Bénabar shared his addictions with viewers: the suburbs, gastronomy, and... book collecting.

From Madame de Sévigné to Denis Diderot, from Honoré de Balzac to Arthur Rimbaud, writers, novelists, playwrights, poets, and even politicians have all ventured into the art of love letters to express their passionate tenderness.

Whatever we say, whatever we do, in matters of bibliophily, the original edition of Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire retains all its attractions. The history of its successive publications, the corrections caused or not by the trials, and a number of back and forths would constitute the equivalent of an annexed volume It all began in 1855, when the Revue des Deux Mondes published 18 poems under this title.