Ode to Odysseys

All he has to do is step outside to find himself with his head in the clouds, gazing lost into the distance, his mind elsewhere.

Thirsty for discovery, eager to take a bite out of the world, keen to meet new people, the traveller's appetite is insatiable and he knows only a happiness equal to the immensity he sees, that of the pages his pen caresses to bring us the seven thousand wonders of the world.

Thus, with his ink at the ready but his soles to the wind, the travelling writer keeps one foot on the ground and lifts the other, like a sailor, to throw himself headlong into the unknown, ‘chest out and lungs full’!

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.

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A century after the poet, he visited Italian palaces, admired the marble, paced up and down the Palatine Hill and the six neighbouring ones, sailed down the Latin rivers and braved the dangers of the sea air.

He compared the provinces and much more, and, like Homer, recounted this beautiful journey in a unique manuscript of over 400 pages.

Le Feu Follet devoured this unique account by Jean Cocquebert, a precocious backpacker who was as much a gourmet as he was an aesthete, whose curiosity and boldness led him to try everything from rifles to sprinklers – and female company...

This week, the investigation presents the completely unpublished manuscript of a bourgeois from Reims who, in 1647, packed his bags for a seven-month adventure through France and Italy as a ‘tourist’.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 oenological testimony.

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« Nature brought us into the world free and unencumbered, but we imprison ourselves in regions, like the kings of Persia who imposed on themselves to drink only water from the river Choaspès, thus foolishly renouncing their right to use all waters and drying up everything that constituted, for them, the rest of the world.»

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