Investigations

This quite violent text against Protestantism belongs to the broader context of the French wars of Religion. The female voice became an instrument of persuasion under the guise of innocence and ignorance: "Here the published woman is not an example of a literary vocation but of a religious mission fully embraced."

A "seventh" unknown Persian melody whose inscription brings together two lovers with a tragic destiny: Bréton and Regnault, the "singer" and her "warrior".

This week, the investigation presents the completely unpublished manuscript of a bourgeois from Reims who, in 1647, packed his bags for a seven-month adventure through France and Italy as a ‘tourist’. His daily journal is an extraordinary intellectual, cultural, social, political, gastronomic and onelogical testimony.

For Jean-Christophe, "universal life" is not a trivial activity, but a long quest toward wisdom and European fraternity. Supported by Péguy, admired by Zweig, loved by Gorky, Romain Rolland embodies the ultimate pacifist and universalist struggle against the world’s warmongering passions. Le Feu Follet has discovered the unique copy belonging to the administrator of the Cahiers de la Quinzaine, with exceptionally added contributions by Charles Péguy, as well as Rolland's corrections and comments. It includes proof sheets and other traces of the immense work undertaken for this extraordinary opus, a literary testament to what Europe could have been–had the pacifists won the (pre-)war.

When the young Victor published his first collection of poems, he immediately sent a copy to the man who had transformed the "colourless, sightless and voiceless child" into a poet at the age of seven and, soon after, a literary monument. Edition-Originale has uncovered a unique trace of the existence of this mentor figure who haunts the work of Victor Hugo, Father La Rivière...

To all those who have been fortunate enough to have had a wonderful journey, Edition-Originale dedicates these selections full of distant customs and numerous reasons to read and to set off.

"Speech is silver, silence is golden": who but a Belgian could transform this popular adage into an ecclesiastical rule cast in the very same metal, with characteristic humor and irreverence? Yet it was in all seriousness that Leutbreuwer, a Franciscan friar well-read in the virtues of monastic silence, conceived this incomparable catalog of sins: offering at once redemption at a lesser moral cost and a wide selection of new vices to explore... While such silent confessions would doubtless frustrate the psychoanalyst, this compendium remains a unique archive for the historian and an unparalleled delight for the poet. It is hardly surprising that one of these exceedingly rare book-objects should have found its way into Apollinaire's Infernal Library!

"The book that revealed to the world the existence and horrors of the death camps"

Who decided summertime idleness and leisurely musings were mindless activities? Curiosity is only a flaw if one has yet to indulge in it...