This paper presents the review of Les Fleurs du Mal that Adolphe de Lescure published on 15 March 1859 in «La Gazette de France». While recognizing the literary quality of Baudelaire’s works, Lescure stigmatizes his «exagération […] systématique». Born in Bretenoux, in the Lot, in 1833, historian and journalist, he also published in «La Gazette de France», on 17 July 1860, a review of Les Paradis artificiels.