☙ Au temps de Baudelaire, Guys et Nadar

1945 - Anne d'Eugny & René Coursaget

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☙ Au temps de Baudelaire, Guys et Nadar

✑ Anne d'Eugny & René Coursaget

AU TEMPS DE BAUDELAIRE, GUYS ET NADAR

Published in 1945 by Éditions du Chêne, this work by Anne d'Eugny and René Coursaget offers a fascinating dive into the artistic and literary Paris of the Second Empire. The book focuses on three emblematic personalities of this era: Charles Baudelaire, the cursed poet who revolutionized modern poetry with Les Fleurs du Mal; Constantin Guys, the painter of modern life whom Baudelaire praised in The Painter of Modern Life; and Félix Nadar, the pioneering photographer who immortalized the great names of his time. This cross-study allows us to understand the artistic interactions, reciprocal influences, and creative effervescence that characterized Paris in the 1850s-1860s. The authors recreate the atmosphere of literary cafés, artists' studios, and Parisian boulevards where aesthetic modernity was being forged. A precious document for art historians and lovers of 19th-century literature, this book bears witness to a pivotal era when photography, painting, and poetry dialogued to create a new vision of the modern world.

Why add it to your collection?

Exceptional testimony on Second Empire Paris through three major artistic figures

Original 1945 edition published by the prestigious Éditions du Chêne

Rare iconographic document with period reproductions by Constantin Guys and Nadar

Unique cross-analysis of Parisian bohemia and Baudelairean modernity

Reference work for collectors of 19th-century French literature

Description

Baudelaire's Paris

This work constitutes an in-depth study of the Parisian artistic milieu of the Second Empire through the prism of three creators who each embodied modernity in their own way: Charles Baudelaire, Constantin Guys, and Félix Nadar. Anne d'Eugny and René Coursaget propose a contextual analysis that goes beyond simple biography to explore the intellectual networks, places of sociability, and aesthetic debates that animated Paris of this era.

Three Figures of Modernity

The book highlights the complex relationships between these three personalities. Baudelaire, theorist of modernity, found in Guys the perfect incarnation of the painter of modern life he had called for. Nadar, for his part, represents the new technology of photography that disrupted modes of representation. The authors analyze how these three approaches – poetic, pictorial, and photographic – converge to create a new aesthetic of the modern city and its inhabitants.

Period Document

Published immediately after the Liberation in 1945, this book benefits from the editorial quality characteristic of Éditions du Chêne, known for their carefully crafted works on art and literature. The iconography, an essential element of the work, reproduces works by Constantin Guys as well as photographs by Nadar, allowing the reader to visualize the Paris described by Baudelaire. These period reproductions now constitute precious testimony on the reception of these artists in the postwar years.

Historical and Bibliophilic Value

This 1945 edition represents a particular moment in the history of French publishing, when publishing houses were being reborn after the Occupation. The work testifies to a return to French cultural values and a desire to celebrate the national literary and artistic heritage. For collectors, this is an exemplary copy of the editorial production of this pivotal period, marked by a desire to reconnect with the great French cultural tradition of the 19th century.

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