Baudelaire Suicide Letter Sells for $267,000

BBC shares news that a letter written by French poet Charles Baudelaire recently sold at auction for $267,000. The letter, written to Jeanne Duval in 1845, "announc[ed] he would kill himself." (Baudelaire lived for 22 years after the suicide attempt.) Picking up from there: 

The note, dated 30 June 1845, was addressed to Baudelaire's lover Jeanne Duval.

The poet, who was 24 years old at the time, attempted to commit suicide on the same day - but survived.

The French auction website Osenat said the letter sold to a private buyer for three times the estimated price.

In the letter, Baudelaire informed his mistress of his intention to take his own life. "By the time you receive this letter, I will be dead," it said.

"I am killing myself because I can no longer live, or bear the burden of falling asleep and waking up again."

Read on, at BBC.