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Michel Fardeau

A Neurological Passion Jules and Augusta Dejerine

The pioneering couple in neurology. An atypical story of science (and love). Belated recognition of an unfairly ignored female scientist.

Fatma Bouvet de la Maisonneuve

An Arab from France A life beyond prejudice

A testimony on the question of prejudice about "The Other" and of living together. A sensitive and committed reflection, seen from the inside, on the questions of double culture. A text that sheds light on mutual misunderstandings.

Françoise Brochard-Wyart, David Quéré, Madeleine Veyssié

Incredible Mister Pierre Gilles de Gennes Memories

A revival of "The French Feynman" through selected pieces, most of them previously unpublished. Scientific curiosity knows no borders; sharing it can abolish them.

Liliane Zylbersztejn

Itinerary of an Abused Child Hate, love, and life

A powerful testimony enriched with a reflection on children’s psychological defences against abuse. Seen as a positive psychological process, this approach to hatred — an unusual concept — can light the path of many people who consider themselves affected.

Jean-Claude Cousseran, Philippe Hayez

Intelligence Handbook

For the first time, the real practice of intelligence comes in out of the shadows. Very timely issues, from the international fight against terrorism to cyberthreats and economic intelligence.

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.

Daniel Widlöcher, Antoine Périer, Nicolas Georgieff

Around Daniel Widlöcher: Psychoanalytical Conversations with Antoine Périer and Nicolas Georgieff

These conversations with Daniel Widlöcher are of particular importance: he is one of the last great figures in French psychoanalysis of the post-war generation.

Patrice Debré

Robert Debré, a French vocation A very great physician, a great scientist, a model for the French

The style of the narrative is very upbeat, almost that of a novel. The story of a family that is also a way of restoring the history of France from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The reputation of the author, and

Yves Coppens

Origins of Man: Origins of a Man Memoirs

Richly illustrated, the memoirs of a great paleontologist, a man of exceptional breadth and an indefatigable story-teller, world-renowned prehistorian, and award-winning French scientist. The story of a life dedicated entirely to studying, explaining, reconstituting, understanding, telling about, and conveying the history of human beings, and the mystery of our origins.

René Depestre, Marc Augé

Good Evening Tenderness

The life of an intellectual, revolutionary, and adventurer. An important figure in the négritude movement, alongside Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon. An original reflection on identity and skin color. A look back on his revolutionary dreams and the Cuba regime, in the time of Castro and Che.

François Hourmant

The Mao Years in France: Before, During, and After May ‘68

The mechanisms of this “indoctrination,” personalities, organizations, journals, newspapers, authorities, and men in power who nourished and defended the Maoist ideology; what still remains of it today.

Alain Bauer, Marie-Christine Dupuis-Danon

The Bloodhounds: A Story of the French Intelligence Services in Their Own Words

Interviews with the great leaders in French Intelligence. These interviews break with a culture of secrecy; what the leaders say in no way glosses the difficulties, or the missteps, of the Services, or the manipulations that occur for reasons of high-level – or low-level – politics.

Vincent deGaulejac, Isabelle Seret

Preventing Radicalization: Jihadism, Terrorism

Undertaken first in Belgium shortly after the attacks that occurred in that country, this approach has received a great deal of attention from public authorities, and is seeing increasing interest in France, given the failure of de-radicalization policies.

Philippe Ratte

De Gaulle and the Republic

A decisive speech for the history of France. A history lesson from an exceptional moment of founding and reform. An analysis of the founding of the Fifth Republic. A close look at what Gaullism was.

Ghislaine Thesmar

A Life on Pointe Dance as destiny

The story of an exceptional principal dancer which in a very beautiful style offers an impassioned look at her life. With Ghislaine Thesmar, the reader enters fully into that long line of transmission of the art of dance, one that is constantly renewed and enriched.

Vincent Lanata

The Days in May that Made History in Fran

The history of France is presented here in an amusing and unexpected way. The final chapter offers a consideration of themes that remain decisive in the life of France: war, Europe, geopolitics, and others.

Daniel Sibony

A Radical Love Belief and Identity

An original analysis of the relationships between religions, between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. Key concepts in psychoanalysis applied to religions: denial, repressions, impulses, illusions.

Yves Quéré

A Shell in the Middle of the Ear Science, Education, and Other Shores

Written with happiness, with multiple formulations and aphorisms, this book is an invitation to meditate on the beauties and contradictions of life.

Bernard Kouchner, Patrick Aeberhard, Jean-Pierre Daulouède, Bertrand Lebeau Leibovici, William Lowenstein

Toxicos Drug addiction: Thirty Years that Changed Everything – But Tomorrow?]

Against the institutional inertia and the comfort of habits of thought, the invigorating and instructive account by five uncommon brothers in arms, driven by the same will to care for those who in the past were despised.

Élisabeth Dufourcq

The Spirit of Invention Power Play

A masterful panorama of the great scientific inventions. Much more than a history of science, an inquiry into the scientific mind, the logic of discoveries, the innovative strength of science.

Xu Bo

A Chinese Man from Paris Talks about the New China

A wonderful tale, teeming with anecdotes and portraits that bring to life from the inside the incredible revolution China has experienced in the past two decades.

Iannis Roder

Recovered Children of the Republic Reflections and Practices of Network of Priority Education

A book filled with Iannis Roder’s experiences, including many portraits of students and stories that tell us a lot about the reality of schools in the banlieues.

Boris Cyrulnik, Patrick Lemoine

Stories of Madness before Psychiatry

An original reflection on the future of the treatment of psychiatric illnesses based on its past mistakes.

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.

Kevin O'Rourke

A Short History of Brexit

This book is the story of a divorce, the one between the United Kingdom and Europe with the referendum of 23 June 2016.

Sylvie Le Pelletier-Beaufond

A François Roustang Reader

A pivotal, essential book that enables the reader both to enter into the thinking of François Roustang, and one that carries on his work. The last book thought of and conceived by François Roustang with Sylvie Le Pelletier-Beaufond.

Anca Visdei

A Biography of Alberto Giacometti

A fascinating narrative that recounts the life of a major artist and his relationship with his work and with creation, in which relationships with those close to him, notably with his mother, played an important role.

Daniel Sibony

A new heart

A new and striking dive into the world of advanced surgery. But above all, it is a moving meditation on life, its backlash and unity.

Aldo Naouri

Bits of Existence

Short, narrative texts in which Aldo Naouri reflects on his formative life experiences that constructed the man he became and the pediatrician that has taken care of children his entire life.

Henri Guaino

The End of the West?

A powerful, inspired text that calls upon the greatest voices in literature, philosophy, and history, and which is, through its writing, an illustration of the ideas it is defending.

Sylvain Kahn, Jacques Lévy

The Land of Europeans

Contrary to received ideas, this book shows that the European Union, far from keeping peoples under glass, is made along with them. And if they are the first to criticize European public policies, so much the better!

Laura Arnal, Charlotte Guttinger

I Beat Lyme’s Disease

With climate change, there is a risk of a proliferation of ticks and contractions of the disease. The book reads like a novel; alongside the main story, other accounts illuminate the struggles of Lyme disease sufferers.