Le Feu Follet's Letter

La Librairie Le Feu Follet is delighted to host an event dedicated to the poet Renée Vivien.

A reflection on Balzac and his thoughts on paper – "A host of great minds circled around the idea I wish to bring to life" – this week's selection: first editions on Japanese paper, and an investigation into a fashion magazine that never goes out of style: La Gazette du Bon Ton.

The atelier from Edition-Originale is busier than ever in these last few days before Christmas to offer you bespoke selections and express delivery.

From fairy tales to the battle of the sexes, Edition-Originale explores the other 364 days of womanhood and the strategies employed by female authors to envision a world different from that of the medieval poet Christine de Pizan, who wrote: "The existence of most women is harsher than that of slaves among the Saracens."

"The right of the strongest..." Thus La Fontaine denounced, under the guise of the fable’s simplicity, the Machiavellian nature of our customs and the hypocrisy of our so-called "moral" values. Yet, while the voices and demands of the oppressed have often been silenced, the miracle of the printing press has enabled their dissemination and preservation over time, until they could find an echo that would restore their justice.

Discover the mythical selections of gifts from the Pantheon of Edition-Originale and offer your loved ones the thunder, the trident and the lyre...

Exactly 20 years ago, the greatest literary critic of the twentieth century passed away in secret, as he had spent most of his life: away from the spotlight.Or should we describe him as the most atypical of novelists? Some will call him a freethinker, others the most ambiguous of them all. We can all agree on at least one superlative, "the most mysterious of writers" after his disappearance on February 20, 2003, making him one of the most unknown of the great intellectual figures of our time.The friends of Le Feu Follet are well aware of our attachment to this extraordinary character, whose archives and unpublished writings have been revealed through our team's extensive research.

We are not one to shy away from the traditional New Year's greetings,this sympathetic pagan resurgence celebratingthe performative power of language.But what can we hope for that escapes the monotonyof the same wishes of a happiness always to come? Since there is not even one of these wishes that cannot be satisfied by reading and artistic contemplation,the Librairie Le Feu Follet wishesto all readers and art lovers a... new year.

From Rembrandt to Malevich, painters have always been fascinated by the fertile polarity of black and white. Despite all the technical developments, the great contemporary photographers still favor this “essence of the discipline”. And for the writer, it is not than a creative recipe: black coffee and sleepless night.