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Le Feu Follet's Letter
Whimsical essays, curious histories, epic enquiries, curated selections, highlighted novelties — all seasoned with a dash of humour. A bimonthly journey across the arts and letters, from the present to the past.
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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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