The pleasures "des Fleurs et des Livres" are, as Henry IV.
That of Mr. Chauvelin has at the top a small engraving of three Fleurs de Lys between two oak branches, surmounted by a crown: at the bottom is another small engraving, with his cypher F.
Mallarme and others, with a study of the text of the Fleurs du mal by Prince A.
Another edition of theFleurs du mal, without these poems, but with considerable additions, appeared in 1861.
Baudelaire was a slow and fastidious worker, and it was not until 1857 that he produced his first and famous volume of poems, Fleurs du mal.
The spirit of hatred was still spreading: people were no longer satisfied with effacing the fleurs de lys from the signboards, they now dragged them in the gutters.
In all directions the fleurs de lys were blotted out along with the royal monogram, whilst everywhere the mottoes were daubed with mud.
For the Vallon desFleurs ascend by the road to the right.
And Les Fleurs du Mal, that book of opals, blood, and evil swamp-flowers, will never be savoured by the mob.
Barbey d'Aurevilly himself a Satanist and dandy (oh, those comical old attitudes of literature), had prophesied that the author of Fleurs du Mal would either blow out his brains or prostrate himself at the foot of the cross.
The bulk in the poetry in Les Fleurs du Mal was written before Baudelaire had read Poe, though not published in book form until 1857.
Theophile Gautier's study prefixed to the definitive edition of Les Fleurs du Mal is not only the most sympathetic exposition of Baudelaire as man and genius, but it is also the high-water mark of Gautier's gifts as a critical essayist.
If we are fleurs du mal, we are not roses of happiness, and there you are.
You mean we are flowers of dissolution--fleurs du mal?
If it is the end, then we are of the end--fleurs du mal if you like.
In 1364 the French reduced the number of fleurs de lys to the three we are so familiar with, and in due time England followed suit.
The presumption is strongly supported by the heraldic shield, which could not possibly have been John o' Gaunt's, since the quartering for France consists of only three fleurs de lys.
Had Trenholme been present he would have noted with interest that her dress was of white muslin dotted with tiny blue spots--not fleurs de lys, but rather resembling them.
Circling round the crest of his casque were seen the golden fleurs de lis of the crown of France; and it was remarked, that behind him two of his attendants carried an immense golden wine-cup called a hanap, and a sharp naked sword.
It showed three fleurs de lis and a four-leaved shamrock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
