BaudelaireLes Fleurs du mal
French · Charles Baudelaire
The book in which modern poetry begins.
The opening, set exactly as it reads in the app.
With Les Fleurs du mal the modern poem is born. Baudelaire takes the wreckage of the great city (its boredom, its vice, its sudden and terrible beauty) and makes from it a music no one had heard before. Spleen and the Ideal war in every line, and the sublime is reached not in spite of the sordid but straight through it. Rimbaud, Eliot, and nearly the whole of modern verse descend from this single book.
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The particulars.
- The text
- Les Fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire
- Translation
- Public-domain French (Baudelaire, d. 1867). English translation © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC.
- Pricing
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $19.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.
- Universal
- iPhone & iPad. Side-by-side columns on the larger screen.