Le Feu Follet's Letter

To Be and Not to Be Classic. What is a classic, if not a work that continues to resist the first-class burial of the label "controlled originality": "A Classic"? The great works of literature have nothing "classic" about them, precisely. Years and centuries do not exhaust their youth and relevance. "Human brothers who live after us," you constantly rediscover us...

Multivers, virtual realities, second life, or parallel worlds — once upon a time, all of this was simply called reading! Le Feu Follet has explored the shelves of these solar writers who have illuminated our imaginations and selected a few readings for you to journey through the days and nights of summer. Meanwhile, in the shade, a young blossoming painter embarks on a dangerous affair with a mysterious married and liberated woman.

Be Surprised! Bibliophilia has its codes, its values, its orthodoxy. The jargon of booksellers reflects the demands and legitimate expectations of collectors. But the connoisseur also knows how to abandon these shores to venture into the vast ocean of books and manuscripts.

The Fine Arts in the 20th Century, from Henri Matisse to Enki Bilal "Pleasure, instructing through the voice of the fine arts, Will embellish life within our ramparts." — Marie-Joseph de Chénier

From Jules's Nautilus to Ernest's Pilar, Le Feu Follet is carried away in the wake of two great explorers of the seas and dreams. Between extraordinary journeys and miraculous catches, Verne and Hemingway invite us to share their insatiable thirst for coastal and literary horizons.

Le Feu Follet Opens Its Trunk... The bookstore loves spoken words and pays tribute to all the writers who have devoured cinema and to the great works that have nourished it.

The race of history. Going against the continuous flow of current events, our selection of the week goes back the river of time and strolls along the banks of History, from the source to the estuary, to contemplate its course, its tributaries, cataracts, maelstroms and backwaters...

At every moment in its history, the book has managed to embrace the boldest modernities, contribute to the defense of seditious thoughts, and the emergence of rebellious arts. Photography is all of this at once, and from the very beginning, the book was its main advocate.

Ravachol, Céline, anarchists from left to right... Plunging into revolutionary terrorism, Ravachol would nonetheless defend humanist ideas up to the scaffold, as evidenced by the unpublished manuscript of his final plea-will, which Le Feu Follet bookstore presents this week. Céline, on the other hand, will escape the guillotine but not the drifts of his fierce misanthropy, sometimes sharply targeted but often gleefully exhaustive, as seen in the outrageous and traumatic War manuscript discovered this year, or in his cocky letters to friends: "When hatred chases you like a ghost, it becomes comic..." Edition-Originale presents this selection of books, manuscripts, and signed works by this master of words and wit!