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August 30, 2023

Le Feu Follet's Letter #28

Treasure hunter of both shores, united in harmony with the booksellers of the Quais!


The booksellers of Paris stand firm and rally behind Hubert Bouccara, to protest the removal of our fellow
Bouquinistes from their rightful place along the Seine!

Éditorial. Chineurs des deux rives, à l’unisson derrière les bouquinistes des quais !

Dessin de Carlo Rim

Monsieur Virgule makes it a point of honor

to oppose the suspension of Paris’s Bouquinistes.

What a brilliant idea! The opening parade
of the Olympic Games along the Seine—what a journey steeped in culture! Imagine those athletes, heirs to Homer, whose Iliad, the foundational epic of Western history, includes the first mention of organized sports games held by Achilles. Picture them gliding past the river, presided over by Poseidon, who, according to ancient Greek historians, secured the first Olympic victory by gifting Pelops a golden chariot and winged horses.

Wouldn’t Pierre de Coubertin, who proclaimed the rebirth of the Olympics in the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in the name of education and knowledge, have been thrilled?

The history of the Games is intrinsically tied to culture, and no city can embody this symbiosis better than Paris, the world capital of the arts. The Seine’s banks are graced by some of the most iconic cultural landmarks: the Eiffel Tower, the Palais de Chaillot, the Museum of Modern Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Grand Palais, the Quai Branly Museum, the Monnaie de Paris, the École des Beaux-Arts, the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Institut de France, Voltaire’s House, Notre-Dame de Paris, the Cité de la Mode, the French National Library... and, of course, the Bouquinistes, who long predated most of these monuments, anchoring their green boxes to the Quais in 1859, the same year the now-lamented spire of Notre-Dame was erected!

Aware that the primary purpose of hosting the Olympic Games is to showcase Paris’s identity and promote high-quality tourism, the organizers will surely have planned to highlight these incomparable republican symbols—designated as part of France’s intangible cultural heritage—that are the colorful stalls of the Bouquinistes…

Wouldn’t they?

 

 

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Les libraires de Paris ne se démontent pas

et emboîtent le pas à Hubert Bouccara,

pour protester contre le retrait de nos confrères

bouquinistes du devant de la Seine ! 

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Focus

 
Uzanne
 

Octave UZANNE

Bouquineurs et bouquinistes

Physiologie des Quais de Paris

"En un mot, c'est un long ruban d'humanité, ni meilleure ni pire, qui se déroule tout le long du berceau même du seul et vrai grand Paris de l'art et de l'histoire"

O. Uzanne

 

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La sélection de la semaine

Ils ont aimé Paris

 

« Ma savane est belle
Mais à quoi bon le nier
Ce qui m'ensorcelle
C'est Paris, Paris tout entier
Le voir un jour
C'est mon rêve joli
J'ai deux amours… »

 

 
Consulter
Ils ont aimé Paris
Ils ont aimé Paris

La sélection de la semaine

Ils ont aimé Paris

 

« Ma savane est belle
Mais à quoi bon le nier
Ce qui m'ensorcelle
C'est Paris, Paris tout entier
Le voir un jour
C'est mon rêve joli
J'ai deux amours… »

 

 
Consulter
 

Nos nouvelles acquisitions

 

Prévert le Croque-fontaine, Bonet aime Apollinaire

Ce que femmes veulent, Louis le veule

C’était pas mieux avant

En rouge et noir Marguerite peint son œuvre

Les beaux cons de Boccace

T’as le look Loulou, Alfred H24

_______

Spectacle

Jacques PRÉVERT

Spectacle

Gallimard | Paris 1951

 

Édition originale, un des exemplaires du service de presse.

Envoi autographe signé de Jacques Prévert agrémenté d'un dessin à pleine page.

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Picasso

Guillaume APOLLINAIRE & 

Pablo PICASSO

Ombre de mon amour

[Reliure de Paul Bonet]

Pierre Cailler | Vésenaz 1947

 

Édition originale, un des 20 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil, tirage de tête.


Splendide reliure mosaïquée en plein maroquin bleu nuit signée Paul Bonet.
Superbe exemplaire magnifiquement établi par l'un des grands maîtres de la reliure du XXè siècle.

> Détails

Femmes au roi

Pétition des Femmes

du Tiers-Etat au Roi

[Paris ?] 1er janvier 1789

 

Édition originale.
Pétition de 8 pages conservée sous couverture de papier ancien cousue.

Très rare lettre de doléances dans laquelle les femmes du Tiers-État confient leur détresse à Louis XVI, quelques mois seulement avant l'éclatement de la Révolution française.

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Beausset

Nicolas BEAUSSET

Mémoires concernant les derniers troubles de la ville de Marseille depuis l'An 1585 jusques en 1596

1777

 

Manuscrit de 145 pages. L'auteur était gouverneur du château d'If en 1590. Manuscrit soigné et très lisible composé pour la première fois en 1597. L'ouvrage ne fut édité qu'en 1866.
Reliure en plein maroquin rouge du XVIIIe. 

Superbe exemplaire.

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Yourcenar

Marguerite YOURCENAR

L'Œuvre au noir

Gallimard | Paris 1968


Édition originale sur papier courant comportant bien le bon achevé d'imprimer.
Précieux envoi de Marguerite Yourcenar au critique Henry Bonnier - dont elle orthographie ici le prénom à la française - qui reçut en 1982 le grand prix de la critique de l'Académie française pour l'ensemble de son œuvre.
  

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Boccace

Jean BOCCACE

Contes de J. Boccace

A Londres 1779


Nouvelle édition dont les dessins de Gravelot, Boucher et Eisen (la majorité de Gravelot) ont été regravés par Vidal après l'édition de 1757-1761. Reliure anglaise en plein chagrin vieux rouge glacé ca. 1850 signée B. M. Bromace.
Jolie édition aux charmantes gravures galantes.
 

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Aragon

Louis ARAGON

Traité du style

Nrf | Paris 1928


Édition originale, un des 109 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé pur fil Lafuma-Navarre et réimposés dans le format in-quarto tellière.
Bel exemplaire.

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Jarry

Alfred JARRY

Les Jours et les Nuits

Mercure de France | Paris 1897


Édition en partie originale.
Rare et précieux envoi autographe signé d'Alfred Jarry au poète Fernand Gregh, ami de Marcel Proust.

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