The Baudelaire Thrust

Charles Baudelaire's name turned up in the recent video of a great Parisian style leader, the redoubtable M. Hugo Jacomet, of whom I have also made mention once or twice here previously.

Hugo is a wag of the finest kind. He commented that Baudelaire, whose poems and writings were well-known to French people, would likely not be known to Americans. 

I fear he was making a dig there, at the sheer general disinterest in anything truly cultural and not simple-minded these days.

A 'modern' thriller or detective story
or 'noir' piece must point out its cultural
heritage...

Baudelaire is important for many many things, one of them being that he invented the term 'modernity...'

Another, being that he was the first to translate Edgar Allan Poe into French.

Even Americans 'of modernity' should known Baudelaire - he was featured in the stage performances of Jim Morrison of The Doors, who would quote his poems in French to the backing of heavy rock music from The Doors.

Yes, so so many things.

You can really create a kind of a 'perjury trap' (smirk) for smart-asses - if you happen to be speaking with one in the company of a decent objective judge (IE friend) - by raising the subject of Baudelaire, or at least, injecting his name into the conversation somewhere...

What kind of 'trap' in specifics? Well, you know those types who always want to gainsay anything you say, and make out they 'know things' (that is, are smarter than you), have been to institutions of 'higher education' and all of that... Well, you see Baudelaire is someone whose impact on modern life is a lot more significant than anyone much around these days is really aware. And you can expose the fraudulent who claim they are educated and intellectual with a little of Baudelaire...

Music is by Veeshy - 'Aural Ambience'