The Translators of Edgar Poe’s Tales. For long, French readers only had access to Poe’s tales through Baudelaire’s three volumes of translation. Yet, Baudelaire was not the first translator of those stories. The early translations were often free adaptations, sometimes published anonymously. As a whole, Baudelaire chose to translate forty-six tales and left out twenty-six. He decided to leave out the tales that were purely humorous and satirical. The stories not translated by Baudelaire confirm the most-known facets of the author : stories of detection, of mystification and commentaries on his own craftsmanship. Thus novelists have found a new way of writing sea voyage narratives after Pym’s adventures, on a scientific basis. But they scarcely mixed fantasy and realism with the same talent.