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Madame Sabatier inspires Charles Baudelaire to write a number of splendid poems which he sent to her in distorted handwriting. In 1857, on the occasion of the appearance of 'Les fleurs du mal', Baudelaire makes himself known to her. Madame Sabatier, moved by so much timidity, falls in love and feels she must give herself to him, but by doing so, she breaks the spell. The next morning, Baudelaire writes to her: "you were a goddess, so beautiful, so intangible. And now you are suddenly a woman". The poet and his muse are found together in a room. In his mind's eye, she appears as an odalisque with alabaster skin, in the middle of a rich harvest of fruit, representing the eternal availability. M'me Sabatier, for her part, reads the fruits of the poet's pen and interprets them as a declaration of love. When this ends in disillusionment, she decides to take heart and she lays flowers on the grave of the poet as a homage to Art. To relief her pangs of love, she visits a bar to get smashed.
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Henny Kamphuizen
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Sound: Nico Bunnik, With: Jacqueline Stubenitsky, Arnout André de la Porte
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