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This episode discusses the publication of Baudelaire's 'Flowers of Evil' and notable events including a speech by Senator Margaret Charles Smith.

French poet Charles Baudelaire publishes his landmark book "Flowers of Evil," Senator Margaret Charles Smith gives her speech the "Declaration of Conscience," and the birthday club includes Charles Kay Ogden, Colleen McCullough - with a reading from Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil."

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