With which movements is Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal generally associated?
- A. Neoclassicism
- B. Symbolism
- C. Modernism
- D. Postmodernism
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Correct answer: B. B and C only
Explanation
Les Fleurs du mal (1857) inaugurates Symbolism ('Correspondances') and, with its urban flâneur, is a founding text of modernism.
Note: Items A–D are restored from the source's note; the printed question lacked them.
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