(2-CD set) "Thomas l'Imposteur" is an early work of fiction by the French writer and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau, the story about a teenage boy impersonating an officer during the First World War is read here in French by the actor Andre Falcon.

Marc Aurele, Emperor of Rome in the second Century (160-180), left us a philosophical heritage based upon his very way of life: his style, his preoccupations, his every day’s fears. The writing of his “Pensees” helps him in his exercise of the political power, follows him at the war… Marc Aurele shows a proper preoccupation about finding his right place in the Natural and Social order, to properly assume his function as an Emperor. This major work of both Philosophy and Politic is read in French by Jacques Gamblin.” Claude Colombini-Fremeaux

(2-CD Set) Montaigne's "Essais" (Essays) is one of the greatest and most important books of French literature. They were written at the end of the 16th century. This CD present the second part of our selection of Montaigne's "chef d'oeuvre" made for a contemporary man or woman's preoccupations. The selection has been adapted for a spoken performance. Only a great actor could pretend to take up this challenge, and it's the brilliant Michel Piccoli who did it in this 2CD set.

This 4 CD set delivers a selection of Marcel Proust's novel "Le côte de Guermantes" (The Guermantes Way in English) the third volume of "A la recherche du temps perdu" ("In Search of Lost Time"). This masterpiece of French literature is read by famed actor Daniel Mesguich. Audiobook in French.

2-CD SET

A 3 CD set audio book in French of Gustave Flaubert's debut novel, one of the most important French novel of the 19th Century. With his special style, Flaubert was always searching for "the precise word", and is one of the creator of the Literary realism. A classic.

This 4-CD set features Jacques Gamblin's reading (in French) of "La Tour d'amour" by Rachilde, a very important female writer of the 19th century's end (born in 1862). "La Tour d'amour," her most famous work, tells the story of two lighthouse keepers from Brittany lost in the middle of nowhere. One day, as a ship is wrecked, the young Jean Maleux finds out, at the risk of his life, the weird passion that animates his masters life.

This CD is a recording of a show organized by Michel Desproges featuring famed Jean-Louis Trintignant on Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece: Les Fleurs du mal. The CD includes the song composed and interpreted by Michel Desproges on Baudelaire's poems and some pieces read by Jean-Louis Trintignant. In French.

Raimu has been ranked in the realms of the eternal due to his exceptional woice. A colorful voice that is known and cheriched by the French. This was a marvellous gift to the French nation when the sound cinema arived. And if the latter was immediately successful in France, it was mainly due to Raimu and to his voice.

"Just imagine, in the November 1983 issue of Jazz Hot they asked Chet Baker: “– Do you hear a lot of good trumpeters in the new generation? – Oh, not a lot. But there is that young Frenchman, Francois Chassagnite...” Chet Baker, quoted by Franck Bergerot

Si vous deviez, dans toute votre vie, ne rencontrer qu’une fois cet instrument familier et legendaire qu’est la trompette, et s’il fallait que cette unique rencontre vous fasse, en un peu plus d’une heure, tomber amoureux de tout ce qui se peut jouer, fai

(2-CD set) "Django cut himself off from me in 1947, after returning from the United States (…) He had met with an enormous check for which only he was responsible. Upon his return, he detached himself more and more from music, realising he'd failed his "American conquest"" Charles DELAUNAY. Includes a 40 page booklet with both French and English notes.

The famed critic Leonard Feather wrote, "Oscar Alem has more swing than any other guitarist on the continent" and, "His tone, phrasing, swing, and attack are so grand that if anyone ever mentions Django Reinhardt to me again, I shall stare coldly." Born in 1909, the famed Argentinean guitarist played with the best jazz musicians of the 20s and 30s, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Django. He was hired by Josephine Baker to lead her band, the Baker Boys at the Cafe de Paris. After the war began, Alem returned to Argentina, where he lived, taught and performed until his death at age 71. The two albums here date from 1965 and 1975, and are among his last recordings.

“During this Fifties period when times weren’t easy — an extremely lucrative bungled American contract, the bitter triumph of a tour in Paradise, a few roles in films (not yet the master-actor), and sincere, if not militant, politics —, Yves Montand, even though he was no writer or composer, succeeded quite simply in becoming the undisputed Prince of French Chanson.” Daniel NEVERS This album, issued by the world-famous publishers, Fremeaux & Associes, has been restored using the latest technological methods. An explanatory booklet of liner notes in English and a guarantee are included.

This 4 CD set delivers the recordings of two conferences by Michel Onfray in Paris, invited by the famous « Theatre du Rond-Point », entitled with humour « Le Post-Anarchisme explique A ma Grand-Mere » (Post-Anarchism explained to my grandmother ». In French.