Eliot's note to line 60 indicated that Part I, line 60
refers to Charles Baudelaire's poem Les Sept Viellards (The Seven Old Men). One of the poems in the collection Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil).60) Unreal City,
The lines quoted by Eliot
can be translated as:Fourmillante cité, cité pleine de rêves,
Où le spectre en plein jour raccroche le passant.
Swarming city, city full of dreams
Where the spector in full daylight accosts the passerby.