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The Islamic art collections of the Decorative Arts present a virtually exhaustive panorama of the history of these arts

six empires alternated in the Near East: in Mesopotamia

As the project progresses

its metamorphoses

Volume I: songs I-VI

Paris capitale du XIXe siècle. Gaule The Islamic art collections ofBaudelaire's genius, which finds its nourishment in melancholy, is an allegorical genius. For the first time in Baudelaire's work, Paris becomes the object of lyrical poetry. This local poetry is the opposite of all poetry of the soil. The gaze that the allegorical genius casts upon the city betrays, rather, a feeling of profound alienation. This is the gaze of a flaneur, whose way of life conceals behind a benevolent mirage the distress of the future