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Aragon's Earliest Known Poem: The Birth of a Poet Soon to be Buried Beneath the Shells of the Great WarRead
One is not born Aragon, one becomes him. Through the trauma of the first World War, the upheaval of Dadaism and the enthusiasm of Surrealism, through communist conviction, through Resistance to oppression, through love…
Before Elsa's gaze, before the Affiches rouges, the comrades, the artistic revolutions (even before the shell that would bury him in the trenches) Aragon is already Aragon, from the very first poem, feverishly written in pencil on a schoolboy's page and given to his friend "Anicet"…
- October 31, 2025Le Feu Follet's Letter #71Symbolic Score & Historic GroovesThis 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.
- September 26, 2025L'Enfer de Treblinka by Vasily GrossmanLiterature serving the ineffable"The book that revealed to the world the existence and horrors of the death camps"
- September 12, 2025Le Feu Follet's Letter # 68Traveling and Reading on the EdgeTo all those who have been fortunate enough to have had a wonderful journey, Edition-Originale dedicates these selections full of distant customs and numerous reasons to read and to set off.
- October 10, 2025Hugo's first poetry collection, presented to his master"I had in my blond childhood – alas, all too fleeting! Three teachers: a garden, an old priest and my mother"When the young Victor published his first collection of poems, he immediately sent a copy to the man who had transformed the "colourless, sightless and voiceless child" into a poet at the age of seven and, soon after, a literary monument. Edition-Originale has uncovered a unique trace of the existence of this mentor figure who haunts the work of Victor Hugo, Father La Rivière...
- September 25, 2025Le Feu Follet's Letter # 69Dissidences at WorkWhether 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!
- July 18, 2025Le Feu Follet's Letter # 67This summer, feed your mind!Who decided summertime idleness and leisurely musings were mindless activities? Curiosity is only a flaw if one has yet to indulge in it...
- October 9, 2025Le Feu Follet's Letter #70The 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 12, 2025An original and unpublished manuscript from 1647The « Grand Tour » of Jean CocquebertThis week, the investigation presents the completely unpublished manuscript of a bourgeois from Reims who, in 1647, packed his bags for a seven-month adventure through France and Italy as a ‘tourist’. His daily journal is an extraordinary intellectual, cultural, social, political, gastronomic and onelogical testimony.
- July 4, 2025All in Good Taste: "Le Bon Genre"Le Bon Genre : Observations sur les modes et les usages de Paris depuis le commencement du dix-neuvième siècleThe Directoire and Napoleonic eras had frivolousness in spades... French fashion’s greatest publisher Pierre de la Mésangère proved it brilliantly with his large format plates in Le Bon Genre — an encyclopedia of thrill, pleasure, and style, showcasing the colorful splendors and decadence of Parisian high society in full transformation at the turn of the century.
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