In this course, we will discover the city of Paris through the poems written in its honor. By way of a close reading of Charles Baudelaire’s “Tableaux parisiens,” published in 1861, we will explore why and how the city was able to seduce so many important artists. Baudelaire loved the Paris of the boulevards, of the theaters, of the cafés, of the “multitudes,” and, especially, the Paris of modern life. Taught in French.