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Ravachol, Céline, anarchists from left to right...
Plunging into revolutionary terrorism, Ravachol would nonetheless defend humanist ideas up to the scaffold, as evidenced by the unpublished manuscript of his final plea-will, which Le Feu Follet bookstore presents this week. Céline, on the other hand, will escape the guillotine but not the drifts of his fierce misanthropy, sometimes sharply targeted but often gleefully exhaustive, as seen in the outrageous and traumatic War manuscript discovered this year, or in his cocky letters to friends: "When hatred chases you like a ghost, it becomes comic..." Edition-Originale presents this selection of books, manuscripts, and signed works by this master of words and wit!
Plunging into revolutionary terrorism, Ravachol would nonetheless defend humanist ideas up to the scaffold, as evidenced by the unpublished manuscript of his final plea-will, which Le Feu Follet bookstore presents this week. Céline, on the other hand, will escape the guillotine but not the drifts of his fierce misanthropy, sometimes sharply targeted but often gleefully exhaustive, as seen in the outrageous and traumatic War manuscript discovered this year, or in his cocky letters to friends: "When hatred chases you like a ghost, it becomes comic..." Edition-Originale presents this selection of books, manuscripts, and signed works by this master of words and wit!
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October 31, 2025
Symbolic Score & Historic Grooves
This week, Le Feu Follet centers this week's letter on an inscribed manuscript score by Camille Saint-Saëns and a copy of The Clash's Red China signed by Joe Strummer himself. Two worlds, two eras, speaking to each other across time through ink and autograph. One from the velvet-draped salons of the 19th century, the other from London's sweat-soaked punk dives – yet both insist that music needs something tangible to outlast its makers.
October 9, 2025
The Pantheon's Verdict: Immortality
« The divine cosmos appeared to them torn by tensions, conflicts of prerogative and power. They also recognized unity within it; all these restless and diverse gods, Zeus holds them together under the unity of a single law. »
September 25, 2025
Dissidences at Work
Whether dissidences that herald upheaval or vain struggles that remain underground, dreams of justice or fantasies of chaos, the propositions are sometimes sterile, but opposition is always fertile. In this era of great divergences of visions about the future, a look at the past warns us that while the Yes is unifying, it is salutary to preserve the No!
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