How many poems are in the 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal?

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

The 1857 first edition of Les Fleurs du mal contained 100 poems. Following a trial that resulted in the legal banning of six of those poems for obscenity, the second edition was published in 1861. This 1861 edition was significantly enlarged but omitted the six banned works, resulting in a total of 126 poems.12