Saint Louis island where a certain tranquility is still around has welcomed in its dwellings a lot of illustrious writers as Charles Baudelaire. During the Middle Ages, it was impossible to join the island by foot. It was a former place of pasture where cows and sheeps were transported by\u00a0row-boats everyday. The laundresses used to dry their linen and lovers would meet there. They named too \u00ab\u00a0the Cows Island\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n
The \u00ab Fust bridge \u00bb was built in 1370 to reach the \u00ab Rive Gauche \u00bb. This \u00ab Fust \u00bb had the same signification as a barrel that indicated an oak container or the trunk of a tree meaning we could think that the bridge had been built and planed with many of them. At that time, there was a square tower named \u00ab La Tournelle \u00bb i.e. a small tower located at the entrance of the bridge. It was a part of the enclosure Philippe Auguste established between the end of the 11th century and the beginning of the 13th century to protect the capital from foreign attacks. In 1656, at the end they decided to build a stone bridge to have a better protection against bad weather, it will extended in 1841 with the king Louis Philippe.<\/p>\n
Charles Baudelaire lived at \u00ab\u00a022 quai de B\u00e9thune\u00a0\u00bb on Saint Louis island. He is a French modern and famous poet and particularly for his book \u00ab\u00a0Les fleurs du mal\u00a0\u00bb where he will explore mazes of the consciousness by sharing his own internal drama which was finally nothing else that the human tragedy. Also \u00ab\u00a0The spleen of Paris\u00a0\u00bb, small poems published in prose in journals. Modestly, Baudelaire will describe them as \u00ab\u00a0Bagatelles\u00a0\u00bb even if he was fully aware of what they were. He will inaugurate considerably through his texts a new literary form by capturing the strangeness of the daily life. Rimbaud and Mallarm\u00e9 will be inspired by his literature quickly \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"