Thanks to Roger Viollet’s archives and Sébastien de Oliveira’s color work, you can relive the hustle and bustle of the Roaring Twenties and the everyday life of the streets of Paris.

A dozen small gazettes, in the style of the daily press of the period, shed light on the intense nightlife, the chaos of traffic conditions, the omnipresence of sports for all, life in Parisian brasseries…

These 180 colorizations act like a time machine: 1924 Olympic trials, crowded café terraces, merchandise unpacking at Les Halles, traffic jams in front of the Opera or eclipse viewing on the Grands Boulevards.

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The Bibliothèque de l’Amateur is a collection of small-format books for the general public, featuring some thirty monographs on iconic 20th-century designers. It is the perfect tool to discover, or make discover, the work of last century’s masters of design. Think Charlotte Perriand, Isamu Noguchi, Pierre Paulin, Alvar Aalto, Oscar Niemeyer etc.

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Rien n’est simple is the title of Jean-Jacques Sempé’s first collection of cartoons, published in 1962.
“When I arrived in Paris, I found the Parisians very cheerful (…) I was immediately enchanted by the metro, the buses, the fever of the city. And above all, I cycled a lot. For thirty years, I cycled everywhere,” said the artist.

Sempé was a French cartoonist. He is known for the series of children’s books he created with René Goscinny, Le Petit Nicolas, and also for his poster-like illustrations, usually drawn from a distant or high viewpoint depicting detailed countrysides or cities. For decades, he created covers for The New Yorker.

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Civilizations and peoples are like stars: they are born, flourish and disappear. Sumerians, Spartans, Etruscans, Mochicas, Aksumites, Mayans or Mongolian nomads have in common that, over the course of several centuries or a few decades, they developed a remarkable way of life, elaborate know-how, artistic achievements, culture, medicine or knowledge of the stars.

From the Aztecs with their disastrous calendar, to the Pascuans with their strange Moai scanning the horizon, or closer to home, the Tasmanians and Herero with their tragic destiny, to the Onas and Alakalufs of Tierra del Fuego, this atlas invites us to a poetic exploration of the world, and an encounter with some of the brilliant or more obscure civilizations that have marked history.

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Paris is a literary labyrinth in which, alongside the greatest writers, it’s good to get lost. The belly of Paris, the galleries, streets and cafés, the Seine and secondhand booksellers, and then Notre-Dame, eternal and serene…

Would we be able to situate Zola, Céline and Aragon in the City of Light if we didn’t have their writings and the Roger-Viollet agency’s unique collection? Will you set off – at random, along the narrow streets – into the Paris that words haunt and magnify? Paris is definitely a party!

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A treasure trove of French culture and heritage, the Chantilly estate was rebuilt after the French Revolution by Henri d’Orléans, Duc d’Aumale and son of King Louis-Philippe.

It was within this exceptional residence that the last French prince housed his spectacular collection of works of art, historical furniture and precious manuscripts, which today make up the rich heritage of the Condé Museum. This book invites us to discover (or rediscover) one of France’s most beautiful estates, its majestic stables and splendid gardens, in the company of the Duc d’Aumale.

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Paris is the book capital of the world!

With 626 bookshops, including 27 century-old establishments and 14 that have been in business for more than 150 years, books are in a class of their own. Philosophical bookshops, theatrical bookshops, anarchist bookshops, English bookshops, comic book shops, from ancient Latin texts to manga, millions of books are available on the city’s streets.

The famous 230 bouquinistes that have surrounded Notre-Dame de Paris for over 450 years, the statues of writers, the memorial plaques, the literary hotels and cafés, the libraries and poetry clubs are all reminders of the extravagant biblio-diversity of Paris and the ceaseless ferment of the world of letters.

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