Events

Felicity Lott, classic English soprano singer, Francophone and Francophile, and Jacqueline Bourgès, his musical accomplice, chose the most beautiful melodies to illustrate the Proustian genius. Alain Square, actor-director, wrote the show from Marcel Proust texts.

The exhibition "In Praise of scarcity. One hundred treasures of the Rare Books Reserve" (Éloge de la rareté. Cent trésors de la Réserve des livres rares) is at the National Library of November 25, 2014 I 1st February 2015 the rooms offer presented in their diversity, a panorama of forms and possible definitions of scarcity.

The Strand Magazine published a new novel by John Steinbeck, missing for more than 70 years: With your wings ("With your wings")

Gustave Doré occupied a central place in the visual culture of the nineteenth century. It marked the imagination of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and comics - he is considered one of the founding fathers - and film. The Orsay Museum devotes a virtual exhibition.

The Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles presents an exhibition drawings and engravings, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin and Armand Simon. September 25, 2014 to January 4, 2015

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded today to the novelist Patrick Modiano. He becomes the fifth French author to receive the award.

The National Library honors the victims of the attack by exposing in his room of the Press and Media drawings collections signed Cabu, Charb, Wolinski and books on religious caricature and the history of Charlie Hebdo.

... Or banned masterpieces of Japanese art, in the Pinacoteca of Paris, November 06, 2014 to February 15, 2015

Designed in two parts, the exhibition presents 500 exceptional works, many of which never left Japan after the opening of the Hokusai Institute in Tokyo in spring 2015. Exhibition organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palace.