Baudelaire et Auguste Legallois Une « énigme » résolue

This article studies the relationship between Baudelaire and Auguste Legallois. Baudelaire’s letter to Jean Wallon of 29 July 1850 (whose autograph is recently reappeared) shed new light on this relationship. At first socialist editor, Legallois becomes, after the coup d’État of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, mesmerizer. This article also offers an interpretation of some mysterious references in Baudelaire’s letter of 29 July 1850.