Our selections

Pardon my non-french! You are all forgiven, you strange strangers who delight us with your torrents of tongue, your lexicons of legend, your diamonds of idiom. Let us relish the ripeness of your rhetoric, the wild, unheard-of wonders you weave, told in the tongue of Shakespeare, Goethe, Li Po, Dante, Cervantes, Khayyam, Sappho - or in the translations of Gide, Nerval, Judith Gauthier, Rivarol, Oudin, Toussaint, or Renée Vivien!

A traversal through the works of those who have been writing, imagining, and creating since the late twentieth century. This selection brings together pieces that mirror the shifts of an era — literary gestures, singular voices, new perspectives. Each book and object has been chosen to capture, through its material presence, the living imprint of our contemporaries.

❝ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. ❞ I. Calvino.

Thus the first edition of the great works of French literature is, quite simply, the birth of infinity.

Popular success still draws scorn from certain quarters of the literary world - writers too austere to forgive a book for being loved by many. Their disdain leaves us cold. To us, ardent readers, all words wear the same skin.

They are never young, though ever green,

Each bears a blunted blade, or a sharpened quill,

An empty chair is rarely seen,

Grave of tone, and sharp at will -

Forty sit today, Immortal, and serene.

Presentation inscriptions, bookplates, armorial bindings, provenances: step inside illustrious libraries and share the intellectual intimacy of artists, scholars, writers, and the great figures of history and culture.