How many poems appeared in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal?

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Charles Baudelaire French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, photograph by Étienne Carjat, 1863.

The first edition of Les Fleurs du mal, published in June 1857, contained 100 poems. Shortly after its release, 13 of these poems were arraigned for offenses against religion or public morality, and six were subsequently ordered to be removed from the collection by a court ruling.1