To celebrate Valentine's Day, Paris Select reveals books to offer a little, a lot... To read passionately. And to love madly! Happy Valentine's Day!
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Little praise of the kiss, Jérôme Attal, Les Pérégrines editions
“We forget the taste of kisses. That's why you always have to start over." For the writer the kiss would be the metaphor of the page to be written: impatient, sometimes elusive, burning, shy. Jérôme Attal excels with poetry in telling us the exquisite sketch of a kiss through his memories! A hymn to beauty at the heart of which everyone will find themselves.
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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 Elisabeth de Feydeau takes us in the wake of the most illustrious fragrances, from the line of the bottle to the design of the label down to the smallest of the components that ensure their success as well as their durability. We will discover their history, the workshop of the perfumer and the great creators. The importance also of scents in literature with Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust or Emile Zola among others. A necessarily intoxicating prestige edition dictionary!
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I will be the fire, Diglee, La Ville Brûle editions
The author brings together her favorite poetesses here. Over the portraits she has illustrated Diglee offers us an exhilarating immersion in the world of Christina Rosetti, Cécile Sauvage, Marie de Heredia, Catherine Pozzi, Claude de Burine, Mina Loy via Sylvia Plath as well as a few others.
Classified according to their genre: great lyrical, predatory, melancholic, magicians, eccentric, rebellious, alchemists of the verb or consumed, all share a skin-deep sensitivity that makes them inspiring.
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See you in Naples, Jean-Pierre Cabanes, Albin Michel editions
1848. Fiery and reckless, the seductive Giacomo from the Sforza family throws himself into the heart of the fight for Italian unification. From the Five Days of Milan when the tumult began in the Mille countryside, the young man will enlist in the army, become a spy and then besiege the fortress of Gaeta. It was there that he met Maria Sofia, Queen of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and sister of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Everything opposes them. The magnetism of love will bring them together in a forbidden passion. A gripping historical novel!
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Marie-Angélique de Fontanges, the last passion of the Sun King, Patrick Daguenet, Editions Perrin
Marie-Angélique de Fontanges, born in Auvergne, close to nature and also passionate about poetry, was not predestined to join the court of France. But it was without counting on César de Grolée, a friend of the family, who intrigued in high places so that she was presented to the king. She was then only seventeen. Her dazzling beauty did not leave the monarch indifferent. This aroused the jealousy of courtesans including Madame de Montespan, the titular mistress. The young lady quickly became the favorite of the sovereign. A fiery love was born...
A captivating biography on the beautiful Duchess of Fontanges with a dazzling destiny. His mysterious death at the age of twenty left Louis XIV inconsolable for a long time.
Article written by Marie-Laure Vallée
