1857
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In 1857, Charles Baudelaire publishes the poetry anthology Les Fleurs du mal (1857), some of the poems are banned by the French government. Likewise, Gustave Flaubert gets in to legal trouble with the publication of Madame Bovary (1857). The French doctor Bénedict-Auguste Morel publishes a treatise on degeneracy titled Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race (1857) and in the UK, book censorship is for the first time systematically enforced with the The Obscene Publications Acts.
- Treatise on the Physical, Intellectual and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race by Bénédict Augustin Morel
Visual art
- Achat D'Une Esclave / Purchase of a Slave (1857) - Jean-Léon Gérôme
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