Foreign Rights

A Certain Louis Wolfson

In 1970, the literary world was stunned by Le Schizo et les langues, a revolutionary book written by Louis Wolfson—an American schizophrenic who wrote in French because he couldn’t bear to hear or read his mother tongue.

Jacques de Bascher: Dandy of the Shadows

This biography offers unprecedented insight into a captivating yet largely forgotten figure whose influence on fashion’s greatest creators and his era was as profound as it was ephemeral.

Louis Jourdan: The Last French Lover of Hollywood

The book Louis Jourdan: The Last French Lover of Hollywood evokes the personal and professional life of the French actor, both in France till the Liberation of Paris and in America till his death.

Arno Breker, A Biography

This book follows the sculptor's steps and tries to define the place of official art in a totalitarian country, the moral conscience of the artist and the sacred nature of the artwork that either must or must not survive the atrocities of History.

This Is Pierre Etaix

This ABC, co-published by Séguier and Arte, provides a touching account of the artistic progress and the life of Pierre ETAIX with 400 pages of illustrations and texts encompassing a 60-year career.

Hervé Guibert: Bite Marks of Destiny

Hervé Guibert: Bite Marks of Destiny follows Hervé Guibert’s extraordinary journey from his stifling suburban childhood through his meteoric literary rise and his final years documenting his own demise with unsparing frankness.

John Ford and the Indians

John Ford and the Indians tells the story of a meeting. In 1938, as he is searching for a location for his upcoming film Stagecoach which will bring back the Western genre in the spotlight, John Ford discovers Monument Valley and his inhabitants: the Navajos.

The Parisienne of Paris

It could be a question for an exam if these people would open up a little: “The Parisienne, a myth or a reality?”. Never mind philosophy or sociology, it would rather be a matter of aestheticism.

Luxifer, Why Luxury Owns Us

Luxury seems to have captured our planet: despite the crisis it is booming, from New York to Shanghai, it dictates our dreams, it carves our bodies, it smoothes our skins, redesigns our cities. It has become the ultimate dream for millions of individuals.

Mallarmé & Fashion

Mallarmé and Fashion: an essay devoted to a fashion magazine La Dernière Mode/The Latest Fashion Mallarmé contributed to from August to September 1874. The books attempts to articulate this astounding fashion magazine on Mallarmé's poetics.

How Carmen Killed Bizet

This story is based on actual facts. 1874 : Bizet is a second-rate composer, he tires himself out, giving lessons and accomplishing menial tasks for famous composers, merely in order to survive.

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