The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded today to the novelist Patrick Modiano.

He becomes the fifth French author to receive the award.

Designed 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.

In 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.

Books 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.

". Omelet Tartine literary critic and nourishing" written by "Whoever" and published in 1868 by Armand Leo, announces its program from the motto: "We do Poas an omelette without breaking eggs - Also in. casserons us over the head of everyone "...

Without the letter "A" ...

Or ... how the passion of Victor Hugo for his mistress reflected in the autograph items he addressed him intimately to his passion for the political struggles and the humanistic causes.

When he published in 1912 his third book of poetry, The Dance of Sophocles, Jean Cocteau, young prodigy, 23, is adored by artistic and literary circles. Proust intimate friend of Jacques-Emile Blanche, Nijinsky and Diaghilev faithful and disciple of Anna de Noailles, his ambition is to unite in his person all the talent around him ... [Full story]