Auguste Poulet-Malassis [SEP] place of death
Auguste Poulet-Malassis
Paul Emmanuel Auguste Poulet-Malassis (March 16, 1825 – February 11, 1878) was a French printer and publisher who lived and worked in Paris. He was a longstanding friend and the printer-publisher of Charles Baudelaire.
Biography.
In his short six years of printing and publishing, Poulet-Malassis released very few books, and with little gain financially. He seemed to have been more concerned with their aesthetics and their appeal to his close friends than, much to the despair
Auguste Poulet-Malassis, who had published Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal" ("The Flowers of Evil") in 1857, to send copies of his book to the critics. They alone could judge "the commence of a publication which will see its end only later, and after I will have seen mine". He tried to explain his position, and even offered to change some "too strong" points for coming editions:
Poulet-Malassis announced the forthcoming publication of the book the same month