Flowers of Evil and Other Works fleur-de-lis

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explanations for how good Christians are tempted by the devil to become witches

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Flowers of Evil and Other Works fleur-de-lisWhen Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was not until 1949 that the French courts removed the ban originally imposed on Baudelaire's masterpiece. Today, Flowers of Evil is regarded as the poet's greatest work and perhaps