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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 24, 2014Le Feu Follet catalog November 2014Aragon, Blanchot, Dumas, Hugo, Kessel, Nemirovsky, Stendhal, Supervielle Zola ... Browse our selection of news: prestigious autograph items, rare editions and unique bindings.
- October 9, 2014The Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Patrick ModianoThe Nobel Prize in literature was awarded today to the novelist Patrick Modiano. He becomes the fifth French author to receive the award.
- September 26, 2014The ancient books to boards and figures differBooks to figures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are among the greatest achievements in the history of the book. Le Feu Follet gathered some fine examples of this "golden age of illustration" of literature - La Fontaine, Molière, Cervantes - the travelogues - Bruce Cook, Keate - books of prints - Hokusai, Adam - the treaties of Science - Duhamel du Monceau - fine arts to history.
- October 17, 2014Leon Bollack - The French language by 2003"Unless we assume that civilization suddenly stops, no one can say that our language will not undergo further processing." To predict these changes, Leon Bollack offers in 1903, more than a "language astrology," a comprehensive study of the "forces that will shape the future constitution of the French language" and "probable result".
- October 6, 2014Event: Hokusai exhibition at the Grand PalaisDesigned in two parts, the exhibition presents 500 exceptional works, many of which never left Japan after the opening of the Hokusai Institute in Tokyo in spring 2015. Exhibition organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palace.
- September 23, 2014The omelette. Tartine literary critic and nourishing"L'omelette. Tartine littéraire, critique et nourrissante" written by "Whoever" and published in 1868 by Armand Leo, announces its program from the motto: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. - And so, we shall break them on everyone's head."
- October 13, 2014Focus on... Marcel Proust and Baroness de PierrebourgBaroness Margaret Harty Aimery Pierrebourg, wife and mistress letter of Paul Hervieu, ran a brilliant literary Salon. Regularly frequented by Proust "Salon Avenue wood" was a melting pot of many psychological portraits Research.
- October 3, 2014Centennial Romain GaryIn 2014, Romain Gary would have been 100 years. On this occasion, many celebrations are held in his honor. Le Feu Follet offers to return to these events and to discover or rediscover a set of unique copies - first editions, autographs items signed his greatest works.
- September 22, 2014Arago: Curious trip around the worldWithout the letter "A" ...
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