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June 3, 2022
On the Uselessness of White Gloves in Conservation
L'Operatorium - Secrets d'atelier (Bibliothèque de Versailles) masterfully demonstrates the uselessness, if not the harmfulness, of using gloves when handling antique books. Unassailable arguments worth spreading!
“Pale specters of a legend born in the 20th century of our era, haunting conservators relentlessly, creeping into every corner of libraries, feeding on fragments of leather and oozing with the mold they carry, drinking the sweat of zealous researchers like the dark, book-devouring, voracious beast—cursed a hundred times was its reflection...”
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October 31, 2025
An unpublished musical gift composed by Camille Saint-Saëns
A "seventh" unknown Persian melody whose inscription brings together two lovers with a tragic destiny: Bréton and Regnault, the "singer" and her "warrior".
October 10, 2025
"I had in my blond childhood – alas, all too fleeting! Three teachers: a garden, an old priest and my mother"
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...
September 26, 2025
Literature serving the ineffable
"The book that revealed to the world the existence and horrors of the death camps"
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