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...

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.

The atelier from Edition-Originale is busier than ever in these last few days before Christmas to offer you bespoke selections and express delivery

Discover the mythical selections of gifts from the Pantheon of Edition-Originale and offer your loved ones the thunder, the trident and the lyre...

A Letter to Father Christmas…
And to Mommy Deerest.

What if the pleasure of writing started from that very first letter we sent to Santa as a child?  Just starting to read and write, we set out on our journeys as secret and passionate authors.

What if our fascination for the correspondence of writers and artists owed something to this precious memory, both intimate and common, of our own awakening to the art of writing letters?

What if all letters, written as friends or lovers were rewrites of this original missive, carefully thought, beautifully crafted, duly addressed, rigorously stamped and proudly posted to a bearded recipient from the North Pole...



To inaugurate this month devoted to Christmas lists and weekly suggestions for unique, personal, and precious gifts, Le Feu Follet pays tribute to beautiful letters by revealing the poetic secrets of a deeply melancholic and raw letter from a son exiled from his mother, but whose "mud" conceals the secret alchemy of Baudelairean "gold".

On April 3, 1862, Victor Hugo succeeded, from his English rock, in the feat of publishing simultaneously and in the four corners of the world the most important humanist novel of the century. However, even today, booksellers and bibliographers doubt the success of this tour de force and continue to quarrel over the precedence of one publication over another.

False testimonies (from Adèle), erroneous information (from gazettes), abusive interpretations (from bibliographers), failing memory (from Hugo) and disorderly precipitation (from Meurice and Vacquerie) against a background of exacerbated rivalry (between Lacroix and Pagnerre), the he Feu Follet investigation takes you through the twists and turns of an exceptional editorial adventure, the source of one of the most tenacious bibliographical misunderstandings, wrongly attributing precedence to the Belgian edition over the French and ignoring the real difference between the Lacroix and la Pagnerre: the text supplement.
Let's listen again to the voice of the master Hugo and his love for the animals that he mirrored to each character in Les Misérables: Valjean-Madeleine's good bear, Fantine the mouse, Cosette the lark and above all Javert, "this dog son of 'a female wolf "…
Edition-originale.com offers you this week its literary bestiary.