Biographies, Memoirs All books

Philippe Ratte

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing The Other Great President

An original biography that convincingly and in a remarkably well-informed way develops arguments that support its position.

Annick Perrot, Maxime Schwartz

Pasteur’s Nephew Or the Adventurous Life of Adrien Loir, Scholar and Globe-Trotter (1862-1941)

The book reads like a novel, part biography, part story of the development and history of Pasteurian science as seen through the life of Adrien Loir.

Yves Coppens

The Scholar, the Fossil, and the Prince From the Lab to Palaces

A storyteller with amazing talent, a scientist who is happy to reveal to the greatest of figures other facets of his personality: adventurous, refined, and full of humor.

Philippe Taquet

Georges Cuvier Anatomy of a Naturalist

The second of three volumes, this one dealing with scientific work between 1795 and 1803; the third will deal with the later years of the greatest biologist of his time.

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.

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.

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.

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.