NOTES 
  
  
IV. Written at the height of the power of 
Napoleon III. 
IX. ”Box-office Clerks.” The allusion is un-
translatable. In French theatres there are 
three officials to check the theatre tick-
ets, sold or complimentary, and to assign 
seats to ticket holders. 
XXIII. Santerre’s drums. 
XLVI. Yeats, etc. Baudelaire here alludes to 
some long since forgotten poetasters of 
his day. 
L. The incident of the Villa Hermosa seems 
to refer to some incidents in Baudelaire’s 
life.