« Blanchot mit longtemps au défi photographes et caricaturistes de la presse littéraire. Minimalistes et rarissimes, sur tant d'années, sont les esquisses d'illustrations : en 1962 dans L'Express, une main brandit un livre, sur fond de page ; en 1979, dans Libération, un carré vierge au milieu de la page, portant pour toute légende le nom de Maurice Blanchot et une citation de l'Entretien infini (« un vide d'univers : rien qui fut visible, rien qui fut invisible ») » (C. Bident, Maurice Blanchot).

In a dialogue from Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac gives "information that will not be out of place in a work whose material existence is due as much to paper as to the press"

The Gazette du bon ton was an important step in the history of fashion. Combining aesthetic demands with the physical whole, it brought together – for the first time – the great talents of the artistic, literary, and fashion worlds; and imposed, through this alchemy, a completely new image of women: slender, independent and daring, which was shared by the new generation of designers, including Coco Chanel, Jean Patou, Marcel Rochas, and so on…

In the spirit of “a-muse-ment” before all else – excuse the pun –
Discover the new Le Feu Follet catalogue and its collection of original editions, manuscripts and photographs featuring Baudelaire, Breton, Camus, Cendrars, Colette, Eliot, Magritte, Musil, Péguy, Rimbaud, Sarraute, Valéry, Vian and all of literature's finest...

In the spirit of “a-muse-ment” before all else – excuse the pun –
Discover the new Le Feu Follet catalogue and its collection of original editions, manuscripts and photographs featuring Baudelaire, Breton, Camus, Cendrars, Colette, Eliot, Magritte, Musil, Péguy, Rimbaud, Sarraute, Valéry, Vian and all of literature's finest...

Join us in a deep dive into the holistic thought of the Marquis de Sade's cousin who embraced all the fields of knowledge. An accomplished scientist and tide expert, the Chevalier de Sade was also a harsh critic of Necker's economic theories. Just like his illustrious relative, he reinvented the world from the bottom of a jail...

We are not one to shy away from the traditional New Year's greetings,

this sympathetic pagan resurgence celebrating

the performative power of language.

But what can we hope for that escapes the monotony

of the same wishes of a happiness always to come?



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Since there is not even one of these wishes that cannot be satisfied by reading and artistic contemplation,

the Librairie Le Feu Follet wishes

to all readers and art lovers a... new year.