Françoise Héritier

A Delight in Words

Property fills the mouth, Hatred is spit out, Credulity is a good girl, Decision cuts like a scalpel

Françoise Héritier

As Days Go By

A little book of wisdom in the form of a game playing with memories, which causes the little music of life to be heard. A very pleasant read, an invitation to rediscover a taste for life.

Serge Braun

The Babel Syndrome

A philiosophical reflection on the links between science, religion and more broadly the various areas of culture.

Michel Zink

Books from the Past, Readings for Today

When you read an ancient text — which is what you do whenever you read anything besides today’s paper or the latest bestseller...

André Miquel

Chateaubriand’s Memoires from Beyond the Grave Selections chosen and presented by André Miquel

For the 250th birthday of François-René de Chateaubriand: colloquia, commemorations (Saint-Malo, Combourg, Châtenay-Malabry) celebrate the great writer.

Coralie Miller, Dominique Miller

First Lady

Written by a mother and her daughter, a surprising work that launches the reader into fictional tremors while plunging him or her into the depths of analytical reflections on women and politics.

Michel Zink

Gaston Paris’s Middle Ages

Polo Tonka

I Am the Crazy One

In the vein of his earlier work, the author, a true writer, speaks with great clarity about his mental state, and shares the excesses of it with humor and irony.