This 4-CD set features the famous actor Fanny Ardant reading Marguerite DURAS’ “Le Ravisssement de Lol V. Stein” – in French. In 1964, after an impassioned love affair then betrayal, she took refuge in Trouville, was in alcohol rehab and wrote “Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein” in a few months. Lol is a 19 years old lady living in T. Beach. During a ball, she witnesses the birth of passion between her lover and another woman. Paralysed by the beauty of this intensity, she can neither speak nor move until these new lovers leave the ball together… She suffers more from having observed the splendor of this sudden infatuation than from her lover’s desertion. Despite her despair, she soon getd married. She decides to move abroad and live another life. But ten years later she returns to T. Beach and decides to take her revenge…

Gilbert Becaud was known in France as Monsieur 100 000 volts. He contributed to bring about a revolution in French song (and the country’s music-halls) in the mid-Fifties, and today the name Becaud - and his songs - are icons in France’s artistic heritage. This selection compiled by Andre Bernard gives us the chance to rediscover Becaud’s first steps on the road to becoming a Chanson legend, with 36 titles accompanied by an illustrated booklet, containing Charles Aznavour’s reminiscences. Patrick FReMEAUX

La musique de chambre pour violon alto, flûte et guitare a disparu completement des catalogues des editeurs phonographiques. Pourtant cette forme musicale privilegiait une sobriete authentique dans la creation delaissant le triomphe du virtuose en tant qu

This 4 CD set delivers a complete course held in French by CAROLE TALON-HUGON, a famous french historian of art and philosopher. A unique approach on the evolution of art (poetry, sculpture, concept of beauty, etc.) in the Ancient Greece, which mixes philosophy, art and history.

This 3 CD box set delivers an philosophical analysis of Marx and his theories by one of the greatest philosopher of our times: Luc Ferry. Mainly known for his political commitment (he was the minister for Education between 2002 and 2004, Luc Ferry has a great career as a writer and as a teacher. These skills enable him to deliver an amazingly clear-to-understand speech (exclusively recorded in studio for Fremeaux & Associes) about one of the most important theoretician of 19th Centuryn with a philosophical focus on his works: Marx. In French.

Si Gershwin, dans la derniere moitie du XXe siecle fut considere comme un compositeur de varietes, la perspective historique confere A ce compositeur A travers cette interpretation classique et toutes les interpretations Jazz (Charlie Parker, Sidney Beche

“Thanks to radio broadcasts, valuable recordings have been handed down which offer us, with a freedom not available in studio recordings, an invaluable addition to our knowledge of the history of jazz. With the help of these broadcasts, Jacques Morgantini has put together here an ideal programme in a 2 CD boxset with a 32 pages booklet”. Patrick Fremeaux

This 2-CD set contains a total of 36 tracks - 18 of these tracks are also featured on the single CD version of this collection, "Swing Manouche" (FMX #5091). This 2-CD set adds 18 more wonderful Gypsy jazz recordings from 1933-2003. Features Guerino, Tony Murena, Marcel Azzolla with Didi Duprat, Jean Corti, Louis Corchia, Didier Roussin, Oscar Aleman, Quintette du Hot Club de France, Coleman Hawkins with Django Reinhardt, Claude Bolling with Stephane Grappelli, Rodolphe Raffalli, Galliano/Capon and many others.

This 3 CD box features an interview of Marcel Gauchet by Alexandre Wong. Marcel Gauchet, French Historian, Philosopher and Sociologist is the famous author of “Le Desenchantement du monde” (The Disenchantment of the World). In this studio recording, Marcel Gauchet delivers a sound introduction to the main subjects of his Work: the relation between religion and democracy, how to write History… In French.

This 3 CD box set delivers an philosophical analysis of Freud and his theories by one of the greatest philosopher of our times: Luc Ferry. Mainly known for his political commitment (he was the minister for Education between 2002 and 2004, Luc Ferry has a great career as a writer and as a teacher. These skills enable him to deliver an amazingly clear-to-understand speech (exclusively recorded in studio for Fremeaux & Associes) about one of the most important character of late 19th and early 20th Century with a philosophical focus on his works: Freud. In French.

This is the second volume of a new collection about the history of philosophy, in coedition with famed editor "Presses Universitaires de France" (PUF) and directed by famous French Philosopher and columnist Jean-Francois Mattei. In this 3 CD audiobook the author deals with the Ancient Greece philosophers Epicurus, Plotinus and the Stoics philosophers. In French

“As “popular music” in the noble sense, flamenco was born out of the cultural mix which developed in Andalusia. This anthology shows that flamenco is indeed the expression of a collective tradition whose ideal was sublimated by such singers as Manolo Caracol, Terremoto de Jerez or Nina de Los Peines, and guitarists like Melchor de Marchena or Sabicas. Here, the full musical richness of Spain — Arab, Judaeo-Christian and gypsy — affirms its status as a World Music precursor.” Philippe LESAGE

“This 3 CD boxset features a conference recorded for Fremeaux & Associes by famed philosopher Andre Comte Sponville. In this recording, “Qu’est-ce qu’une spiritualite sans Dieu ?”, Comte Sponville recognizes the impossibility to live without spirituality, but clearly distinguishes it from the religions. In French.” Patrick Fremeaux & Claude Colombini

“In 1931’s Paris, Eugene Delouche, a clarinettist born in Martinique in 1909, was Stellio’s equal in spreading the beguine. After World War II he founded RITMO, the label on which he recorded his own 78’s, giving free rein to his creative imagination in jazz and the music of the Caribbean.” Jean-Pierre MEUNIER

“One could say that Gilles was an ancestor of the modern-day songwriter as he was the first, particularly in period when this was not done, to intentionally write good songs. He placed confidence in the public.” Georges BRASSENS