Nineteenth-century critics saw in Baudelaire, author of the poem «Une charogne», heir to macabre and mystifying inspiration Pétrus Borel, nicknamed “the lycanthrope”. This rapprochement, very frequent years 1860-1890, irritated who had a deep sympathy for Borel while considering him as counter-example. context explains why article that Baudelaire published on “Revue fantaisiste” July 15, 1861, ...