With the return of sunny days, Paris Select suggests reading sips of good vibes to accompany your summer here and there... Books that will offer you an escape to other lives, other places!
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Perfume lovers dictionary, Elisabeth de Feydeau, Plon editions
“Perfume makes silence speak. He inhabits absence. It also tells the story of the person who conveys it. The historian Elizabeth de Feydeau takes us in the wake of the greatest fragrances, from the line of the bottle to the design of the label down to the smallest of the components that ensure their success and their durability. We will discover their Story, the workshop of the perfumer and the great creators. The importance also of scents in literature with Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust or Émile Zola among others. A necessarily intoxicating dictionary!
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Messages carried by the clouds, Jean d'Ormesson, Robert Laffont editions, Books collection
Prefaced by Jean-Luc Barré, Messages carried by the clouds brings together a few epistolary exchanges sometimes tinged with humor between the academician and his writer friends, including Claude Lévi-Strauss, François Mauriac or François Nourissier. But also with the presidents François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac. Eclectic friendships whose convictions the writer did not always share but which literature brought together because, as he said, “friendships that begin with books are perhaps the strongest”. Unavoidable !
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What to love to live, Fatou Diome, Albin Michel editions
In this collection of stories Fatou Diome scrutinizes the hearts of a host of characters often anchored in their loneliness. It is clear that only love will be able to save them because it "feeds our souls", specifies the author. Once again the reader falls under the charm of the poetic style of the Franco-Senegalese writer.
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Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, drawings by Yves Saint Laurent
Flaubert's work illustrated by Yves Saint Laurent presents the couturier's very first sketches. As a teenager fascinated by the character of Emma, he produced 14 drawings in black ink and gouache inspired by the novel. These hitherto unpublished illustrations in their entirety come from the collection Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint-Laurent. A book that will delight fans of the creator and the great classics.
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The happy people of the world, Stephanie des Horts, Albin Michel editions
We were eagerly awaiting the release of the new book by Stephanie des Horts. The novelist- queen of extraordinary destinies – takes us here in the wake of the flamboyant couple formed by Sara and Gerald Murphy in the heart of Crazy years. They are American. One is beautiful and bright, the other is a renowned painter. Their friends are part of the artistic circle whose Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald among others. Fleeing prohibition, they settle on the Riviera where they organize sumptuous parties. However, a mystery hovers over the much adored couple... A fascinating novel written by a passionate person!
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Happy Days, Adélaïde de Clermont Tonnerre, Grasset editions
Memories jostle for Oscar Vian, the narrator, when he learns that his mother, Laure Brankovic is condemned. Laure and her husband, Edouard Vian formed for thirty years the most charismatic couple of European cinema. She is a screenwriter. He is a director. They rubbed shoulders with the greatest actors, traveled around the world, experienced a host of anecdotes, had a child. Then they separated. His sick mother, Oscar will try to reunite his parents to ward off fate, find happy days. Laure's destiny could be changed forever. The sensitive pen of Adélaïde de Clermont Tonnerre portrays endearing characters who transport us behind the scenes of the cinema from Paris to New York. From Cannes to Hollywood. A captivating moment of escape!
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Indo-China, comics, Gaet's – Sébastien Bataille, Petit à Petit editions
The comic returns to the forty-year career of the mythical group who gave a test concert on May 29, bringing together 5000 volunteers at the Accor Hotel Arena in Paris. The authors present us with a well-documented album starting with the childhood of the Sirkis brothers ; goes back to the story ofIndo-China and the origin of each of his songs. A rock'n'roll group that arouses admiration by changing fashions without taking a wrinkle!
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The beauty of living twice, Sharon Stone, Robert Laffont editions
The actress with the fatal beauty of the ardent Basic Instinct, a film that has become a cult film, looks back with humility on its journey in a book of memories. Still as dazzling at 63, Sharon Stone recounts her childhood in Pennsylvania, her beginnings as a model and then as an actress. She reveals the cerebral hemorrhage which almost cost her her life and her career in 2001. Miraculously, Sharon Stone explains her long reconstruction, the strength drawn from her children; recounts his humanitarian commitment. Enough to love life twice as hard!
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The tribulations of a Frenchman in France, Philibert Humm, Editions du Rocher
The day after the first confinement, the journalist Philibert Humm decides to undertake a world tour of France, so varied in its landscapes. Don't we say that Coutances looks like Toledo? The universe could therefore be found in the least of our villages. Exhilarating! Equipped with a Volkswagen combi the author criss-crosses the country; observe, listen, collect a wealth of information in cafes and sometimes anecdotes about a city, a village, their origins, their similarities with other countries. From this journey was born a work tinged with humor in which history also invites itself.
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Serge Gainsbourg, intimate address, Marie David, Plon editions
Mary David recounts Gainsbourg through the intimacy of his home at 5 bis, rue de Verneuil in Paris. A place full of memories of the great artist; objects he loved. A house rich in years of happiness with Jane Birkin, Charlotte and Kate. It is here, too, that he composed his most beautiful melodies until his death in 1991. An original approach to the life of the musician to mark the 30th anniversary of his death.
