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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. »
This is how Jean-Pierre Vernant expressed the Greeks' ability to reconcile heterogeneous worldviews within a shared narrative, one that was fluid and constantly revisited. Indifferent to the concept of a single Truth, the Greek world was thus governed by a structure of relationships and oppositions whose balance was maintained by the porosity of myths.
Thus the Greek Pantheon is defined not by the figures enthroned within it but by the articulation of these figures, which compose its narrative. And the first lesson of this narrative, the one that founds every polytheistic society, is the possibility of a common coherence, not despite human diversity, but because of it.
The same holds true for the Republican Pantheon. What we construct during a pantheonization ceremony is not a fixed history, but a network of symbolic figures, heralds whose "attributes" compose less a national story than a narrative movement. If this movement is "torn by tensions, conflicts of prerogative and power," it is written "under the unity of a single law" — the one that makes individual struggles the expression of a common promise.
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SELECTION. "Authors buried at the Pantheon : Come in here, bibliophile !"
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The bibliophile's Pantheon obeys the same laws of balance as the Olympus described by Vernant: each book possesses its own character, sphere of influence, prerogatives, purpose, and unique bond with the reader. The world of books is not chaotic but ordered: a structured universe in which differences are mutually defined and held in equilibrium through dynamic tension.
Robert Badinter's cenotaph, borne to the Panthéon, contained not his body but four books from his library. Among them was a work by Victor Hugo, whose own entry to the Panthéon 140 years earlier had marked the monument's definitive establishment as the secular temple of Republican memory…
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THE INVESTIGATION. « In my golden childhood, alas! too brief, / I had three teachers: a garden, an old priest, and my mother. »
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When the young Victor published his first collection of poems, he immediately sent a copy to the man who transformed a "colorless, sightless, voiceless child" into a seven-year-old poet and, in time, a monument.
Edition-Originale has uncovered a unique trace of the existence of this mentor figure who haunts Victor Hugo's work, Father La Rivière…
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When the young Victor published his first collection of poems, he immediately sent a copy to the man who transformed a "colorless, sightless, voiceless child" into a seven-year-old poet and, in time, a monument.
Edition-Originale has uncovered a unique trace of the existence of this mentor figure who haunts Victor Hugo's work, Father La Rivière…
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FOCUS. Ovide, The Metamorphoses
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« None should be counted happy till the day of his death, till his last funeral rites are paid. »
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Our new acquisitions
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VOLTAIRE & MOREAU LE JEUNE
Œuvres complètes [Complete Works]
Imprimerie de la Société Littéraire-Typographique ◇ [Kehl] 1784-1789
The ‘Kehl edition’, the most renowned edition of Voltaire's works, illustrated and published on large paper. It was printed on five different types of paper, and only the large-paper editions, such as ours on laid paper, feature engravings. These are naturally the most sought-after and rarest copies.
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Steven SPIELBERG
Rencontres du troisième type
[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]
Pierre Belfond ◇ Paris 1978
First French edition, no deluxe paper copies issued.
A pleasing copy.
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Guy-René BABAULT
[Journey of Mr. Guy Babault in British East Africa [and in Uganda]]
Paris 1921-1923
Rare first edition of three scientific reports from the zoological exploration mission of Guy-René Babault (1883-1963), corresponding member of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, carried out in present-day Kenya and Uganda in 1913.
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Antoine-Joseph REBOUL & Pierre-Simon de LAPLACE
Exposition du systême du monde
Imprimerie de Crapelet • Chez J. B. M. Duprat, Libraire pour les Mathématiques, quai des Augustins ◇ Paris an VII (1799)
Edition partially in first printing, published three years after the first edition.
Interesting ex-dono by physicist Antoine-Joseph Reboul.
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Georges LEPAPE (Paul POIRET)
L'Embarras du choix. Costume tailleur de Paul Poiret
Paris 1912-1913 ◇ 19 x 24,50 cm
Original colour print heightened with gold and palladium, on laid paper, signed lower right outside the plate mark.
Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.
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Bernard LAZARE
L'Antisémitisme [Antisemitism: Its History and Its Causes]
Léon Chailley ◇ Paris 1894
Rare first edition, no deluxe paper copies mentioned.
Bradel binding in cream half-cloth.
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Pierre de MARIVAUX
La Surprise de l'amour [The Surprise of Love, prose and three-act comedy]
La Veuve Guillaume ◇ Paris 1723
First edition.
Very elegant 19th-century binding ‘a la Du Seuil’ signed Quinet on the first endpaper.
Rare first edition of Chamblain de Marivaux's first theatrical success, The Surprise of Love, published four years before The Second Surprise of Love.
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Louis PERGAUD
(inscribed copy to J.-H ROSNY JEUNE)
La Guerre des boutons
[War of the Buttons]
Mercure de France ◇ Paris 1912
First edition, one of the review copies.
Precious inscribed copy signed by Louis Pergaud to J. H. Rosny jeune, one of the historic members of the Goncourt Prize jury. Pergaud had won the 1910 Goncourt for his collection of short stories De Goupil à Margot.
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