How many poems were removed from Les Fleurs du mal after the obscenity trial?

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

Following the obscenity trial for Les Fleurs du mal, six poems were ordered to be removed from the collection.1

The trial, which took place on August 20, 1857, resulted in this mandate after 13 of the book's 100 poems were initially arraigned for offenses against religion or public morality. In addition to the removal of these works, Charles Baudelaire was fined 300 francs, a sum that was later reduced to 50 francs. The six censored poems were eventually republished in 1866 in the collection Les Épaves, though the official ban on them remained in place until 1949.1