Abdelwahab Meddeb

Jean-Jacques Lefrère

Facing Rimbaud: that is precisely where this album places the reader, without preamble or precaution, through a collection of portraits of the poet, from the most famous – like Fantin-Latour’s Coin de table (“Corner of the Table”) and the photo by Carjat – to the less well-known, like the...

Judith Benhamou-Huet

Who are the art collectors of today? What motivates them? Mercantile or compulsive, impassioned or philanthropic… they are admired, courted, and feared. In truth we know little about them. While the names of the most famous spring immediately to mind – Agnès B., François Pinault, Daniel Filipacchi,...

Henriot

“For the moment, all you need to know is that on the 18th of May of the Year 3000, the city of South-Pole-Ville, capital of the Southern states, counts 684,051 inhabitants, who live in peace under the paternal government of the Duke of Eagles, enlightened, virtuous protector of an enlightened...

Bernard Hermann

This world traveler spent decades in distant locales before deciding one day that he would hardly ever again leave his Parisian apartment on the banks of the Seine, facing Notre-Dame. His traveling is now done through knowledge via books, through spiritual asceticism via meditation, and in his...