Baudelaire Original Sold
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PARIS — A first edition of “Les Fleurs du Mal” (“The Flowers of Evil”) by Charles Baudelaire was sold for $130,000 at an auction of rare 19th-Century books Wednesday. The slim, handwritten volume of poetry was bought by Pierre Beres, a Parisian rare-book dealer.
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