Les Litanies de Satan

The date of composition is unknown, but there is no evidence that it was composed at a different time to the other poems of the volume.

[2] It includes a blasphemous inversion of the Kyrie Eleison and the Glory Be, parts of the Catholic Mass,[3] or it substitutes Satan for Mary and liturgy directed towards her.

[4] Swinburne called it the key to Les Fleurs du mal.

But for political reasons, Baudelaire had to preface the poem with a note explaining he had no personal allegiance with Satan.

[6] Even so, Les Fleurs du mal led to him and his publishers being fined for "insult to public decency".