The Gold-Bug
"The Gold-Bug" was republished as the first story in the Wiley &amp; Putnam collection of Poe's "Tales" in June 1845, followed by "The Black Cat" and ten other stories. The success of this collection inspired the first French translation of "The Gold-Bug" published in November 1845 by Alphonse Borghers in the "Revue Britannique" under the title, "Le Scarabée d'or", becoming the first literal translation of a Poe story into a foreign language. In the French version, the enciphered message remained in English, with a parenthesized translation supplied alongside its solution. The story was translated into Russian from that version two years later, marking Poe's literary debut in that country. In 1856, Charles Baudelaire published his translation of the tale in the first volume of "Histoires extraordinaires". Baudelaire was very influential in introducing Poe's work to Europe and his translations became the definitive renditions throughout the continent.