During Le Figaro's live broadcast on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, the singer Bénabar shared his addictions with viewers: the suburbs, gastronomy, and... book collecting.

A virtuoso virtual tour featuring the expert's magnifying glass and the bookseller's warm smile. True, you won't find Johnny Depp, Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, or Hugh Grant in the credits, but while we may lack dangerous grimoires and poisoning monks, you'll encounter (just as you would on Charing Cross Road or in Notting Hill) real rare book enthusiasts. And that's no movie magic!

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of our exhibition “À livres ouverts”, which will take place on Thursday, December 11 at 7 p.m. at the 5th Arrondissement Town Hall in Paris.

At the cradle of the printed book, incunabulum is the term used to define all books printed between 1452 and 1501.

"Speech is silver, silence is golden": who but a Belgian could transform this popular adage into an ecclesiastical rule cast in the very same metal, with characteristic humor and irreverence? Yet it was in all seriousness that Leutbreuwer, a Franciscan friar well-read in the virtues of monastic silence, conceived this incomparable catalog of sins: offering at once redemption at a lesser moral cost and a wide selection of new vices to explore... While such silent confessions would doubtless frustrate the psychoanalyst, this compendium remains a unique archive for the historian and an unparalleled delight for the poet. It is hardly surprising that one of these exceedingly rare book-objects should have found its way into Apollinaire's Infernal Library!

Inspired by the student journeys of centuries past, Le Feu Follet invites you to its Grand Tour of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

The first edition of L'Étranger bears no specific mention. The bibliographical information derives from several elements.

A "seventh" unknown Persian melody whose inscription brings together two lovers with a tragic destiny: Bréton and Regnault, the "singer" and her "warrior".