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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Les Épaves (Translated as Scraps, or Flotsam) is the title of a collection of twenty-three poems by Charles Baudelaire, six of which were the suppressed poems from the publication of The Flowers of Evil, considered an outrage aux bonnes mœurs (Eng: "an insult to public decency"). Les Épaves were published in February 1866 in Brussels by Poulet-Malassis, with an introduction by Poulet-Malassis, and a frontispiece by the Belgian illustrator Félicien Rops.

The six suppressed poems (known as the Pièces condamnées or Condemned Poems) were "Lesbos", "Femmes damnées (À la pâle clarté)" (or "Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer...)"), "Le Léthé" (or "Lethe"), "À celle qui est trop gaie" (or "To She Who Is Too Gay"), "Les Bijoux" (or "The Jewels"), and " Les Métamorphoses du Vampire" (or "The Vampire's Metamorphoses").

It was the last book overseen by Baudelaire himself, who suffered a stroke in March, 1866, and died the following year in Paris.

The ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949.