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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"…
- February 25, 2015Study Day dedicated to Paul Lacroix at the Bibliothèque de l'ArsenalThe Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal will host Friday, March 20, 2015 a study day devoted to Paul Lacroix, more often known under the pseudonym of bibliophile Jacob. This event is a unique opportunity to discover the life and works of one of the most famous bibliographers nineteenth century.
- January 29, 2015What is an antique book?The classic definition is that an antiquarian book is simply a book printed before 1820. But today the term refers to a larger reality: it denotes any rare book, more or less valuable, not to be found in a traditional library but offered by "antiquarian bookseller."
- January 29, 2015What is a first edition?A first edition is the first text print in a given state. Is the first impression of a work. It is sought after by collectors, bibliophiles, for its rarity, specific characteristics and quality of his condition.
- February 11, 2015Bookbinding GlossaryWhat are the fore-edges, boards, raised bands, joints of a binding?
- January 29, 2015What is "book collecting"?Le Littré French Dictionary laconically defines the bibliophile as a "lover of books."
- January 29, 2015What is an inscribed copy?An inscribed copy refers a manuscript message left by the author on a copy of one of his works. It can be specifically addressed to a person connected to the author, i.e. a fellow writer, and can be either signed or unsigned. Sometimes accompanied by a drawing (Cocteau), a collage (Prévert)...
- February 4, 2015"Swann in Love" <br/> the Jacquemart-André MuseumFelicity Lott, classic English soprano singer, Francophone and Francophile, and Jacqueline Bourgès, his musical accomplice, chose the most beautiful melodies to illustrate the Proustian genius. Alain Square, actor-director, wrote the show from Marcel Proust texts.
- January 29, 2015Different Types of BindingsA plethora of leathers: vellum, calf, morocco, shagreen, sheepskin... Various styles: Jansenist, grotesque... Covering the entirety, or a part of a book: full, half bindings... here are some terms describing a binding.
- January 28, 2015Gustave Doré Exhibition: Imaginary in Power <br/> the Musée d'OrsayGustave Doré occupied a central place in the visual culture of the nineteenth century. It marked the imagination of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and comics - he is considered one of the founding fathers - and film. The Orsay Museum devotes a virtual exhibition.
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