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]

Illustrated with two reproductions of portraits of the inventors of foie gras: NF Dean & JP Clause.

Mazarine Library is organizing, from September 12 to December 12, 2014, an exhibition called The Tower of Nesle: Stone, Ink & fiction.

Contents - prestigious signings: Cocteau his mother, Hugo Drouet, Breton Sartre Karr to Senancour Kipling Leila Anet, Pastor Auguste Barbier, Schwob Alphonse Daudet, Zweig to Bazalgette - rare editions: Diabolique , The Plague, Madame Bovary, The Horseman on the Roof, A Season in Hell, The Flies - manuscripts, bindings, large paper ...

We note and point out to our readers an article by Pierre Assouline in the Republic of Letters on the output of Blanchot Editions de l'Herne

"[...] My natural worn palimpsest suffered a setback from the start of Blanchot (397 pages, 39 euros, Herne): In the first article on the workshop of the writer, Eric Hoppenot, one of two contractors with the collection Rabaté Dominique says that throughout his long life player, Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) has always refused to add anything to his hand in the book of another.

There 70 years, the capital was freed of the occupant by the joint action of the Free French forces and resistance fighters. Le Feu Follet commemorates this event by offering a small selection of books.