It took medievalist Emanuele Arioli ten long years of persistent research across Europe to unearth and reconstruct the story of the Knight of the Dragon. An authentic medieval marvel, this forgotten Arthurian novel recounts Segurant's adventures, from his childhood lion hunt on the island of Non Sachante, to his knighthood, his first battles and the great tournament at Winchester, where he meets King Arthur and challenges the greatest knights of his time, as well as his bewitchment by the fairy Morgana... Daniel Mesguich skilfully recounts the adventures of this forgotten Knight of the Round Table. He reveals the epic breath and hidden meaning of this resurrected novel. A true discovery of our literary heritage! Audiobook. In French. Claude COLOMBINI FRÉMEAUX

With roots deep in western Africa, voodoo spread to North America in the 19th century amongst the slaves and free black men living in the Creole plantations on the outskirts of New Orleans. Their great priestess was Marie Laveau, whose mojo skills and love-potions made her the emblem of a religion which became a “counter-culture”. As a reaction to the strict disciplines of American Protestantism, racism and segregation, voodoo – whether seen as a fantasy doorway to Africa or some sweet, erotic heresy – became an outlet for Afro-American musicians in search of their roots and identity. With detailed notes from Bruno Blum, these magnificent titles – blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, even calypso – express all of hoodoo’s sentiments: spirituality, power, virility, pride, sometimes fear, derision and humour. Patrick FReMEAUX

“The dancer detaches his body from natural functions to achieve pure expression. Dance frees life from what in it was only survival. Paul Valéry, in his Philosophy of Dance, evokes “the mystery of a body which, suddenly, as if by the effect of an internal shock, enters a kind of life that is both strangely unstable and strangely regulated”. This "kind of life" is interior life, real life, the one where the body frees itself from its utilitarian destiny, to invent purely expressive gestures. Paul Valéry, Hegel, Rousseau, Alain for the philosophers, Nijinski, Isadora Duncan or Pina Baush for the dancers, Billy Elliot, Rize or Les Chaussons Rouges for the films, all will help us to grasp the meaning of this higher life which seems to cross the body when it dances.” (Ollivier POURRIOL) Ollivier Pourriol, associate of philosophy and specialist in cinema likes to mix the two. Based on scenes from famous films, he explains to us the concepts of philosophy, which take shape in reality.

In 1964, the jury of the Venice Biennale awarded its American Grand Prix for the first time to an American artist, Robert Rauschenberg. This was an initiative that was commonly interpreted as a definitive recognition of the migration of the world art scene from Paris to New York. However, if it is undeniable that from the sixties on, artists from across the Atlantic triumphed, European creators were not outdone. As proof, the plethora of movements of which they revealed themselves at the foundations: New Realism, Lyric Abstraction, Narrative Figuration, New Figuration ... Nineteen major artists, from Adami to Zao Wou-Ki, via Arman , Buren, Corneille or Combas, testify here for us and elucidate the meaning of their respective practices. Produced from the holdings of the Audiovisual Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art (Imago), Michel Onfray wanted the Gallery and Frémeaux & Associates to publish this essential sound document on the history of contemporary art.

This new release is an album born from an encounter. One of them comes from jazz, the other from “musette”; one is the great renovator of gypsy jazz, one of Django’s heirs, and the other is the world’s accordion champion, the heir of Jo Privat. Both are refined melody experts with hundreds of songs to their credit as lyricists and composers. And yet this is the first time that Romane and Eric Bouvelle ever met up on record. The result is twelve thundering tracks in the pure swing-waltz traditions of Paris in the golden age: strings are plucked and rubbed, the accordion blows, and jazz gets together with java, low down… With magnificent accompaniment from Mathieu Chatelain, Laurent Zeller and Laurent Delaveau (aka “Les Pommes de ma douche”), Romane and Eric bring a sophisticated legacy up to date with new readings of some great standards that breathe fresh air!

"London's most stylish vintage Jazz band!" (Evan Christopher) Amongst vintage jazz bands, The Dime Notes have given themselves the mission of unearthing early pre-swing jazz tunes, dusting them down, reinventing them, and taking them to a wide audience. In so doing they pay tribute to the vanguard of New Orleans jazz, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, King Oliver, and the list goes on. The hippest of the hip, they are the first vintage jazz band with an eponymous organic chocolate bar and they deliver vintage jazz in typically elegant, British style. As London becomes the ebullient new jazz capital, the Dime Notes show that the history of the music is still relevant in all the excitement.

Pop energy songs at the crossroads of Gypsy music and Folk. Norig & No Gypsy orchestra is an invitation to discover the colorful horizons of a striking artist. In this one-of-a-kind Pop/World album, visceral, radiant and sensual, the intoxicating power in Norig's voice gives you the shivers. Eastern gypsy music, or Romanian music, she says, is a mixture of influences, both oriental and occidental. “It has its roots in India. And what’s funny is that in our concert in Chennai, we played a song which they recognized as an Indian song. I didn’t know that, I learnt it from the Romanian people. The music actually travelled from India to Egypt and other places and is also influenced by gypsy jazz in France. That’s what I like about it, it’s so rich.”

Jazzola is the cult catchphrase that gathered together two legendary music figures in France. On the one hand, Marcel Azzola, the accordion master, and on the other, Dany Doriz, the great vibraphone player who carried on Lionel Hampton's legacy and was the boss of the major Caveau de la Huchette jazz club as well. In 1999, this summit meeting was immortalised for Black & Blue at a studio session set by Jean-Pierre Tahmazian. Now reissued, this swinging dialogue between both instruments is assisted by an expert and sensitive rhythm section. Here is a fresh and savoury postcard from the Sixties in Paris. Jazz and java are right there!

(4-CD Set) This box set by talented actor Denis Podalydes features a complete reading of Rousseau's masterpiece Le Contrat Social. Published in year 1762, this book is one of the most brilliant works of 18th century philosophy and has been a major stage in the formation of the republican ideology by proposing a solution to the matter of the government of mankind based upon an idea of auto-government. In French.

After some first expeditions, Robinson Crusoe, sailor of York, embarks for Guinea on September 1, 1659. But the boat is experiencing such a strong storm that it drifts for several days and finally sank in northern Brazil. The only survivor, Robinson manages to reach an island off the Orinoco where he will gradually earn a decent livelihood: he will remain there for nearly twenty-eight years, first alone, then accompanied by a faithful companion he baptizes Friday. Inspired by the real adventure of a Scottish sailor, Defoe's novel is a thundering success that has never been denied. Laurent Jacquet tells us the adventure has become legendary in its full version - Volume 1 and 2 - for the delight of young and old.

There is a form that fertilizes the literary and political fields in the 18th century: that of the letter. And more specifically that of female correspondence. It is the expression, for women of the aristocratic elite, of a progressive breakthrough from the private to the public domain. Building on the Sevignean precedent, the letter-makers understood that the letter is action. They understand that this action is real and effective, as perfectly illustrated by the sensitive reading of Nicole Garcia of the many letters from Madame de Pompadour, the most famous favorite of Louis XV, and Marie-Antoinette, the "last" queen of France. From their "passionate nature" to their "reflective nature", we appreciate the character and influence of these two powerful women, essential figures in our collective memory.

At the time of questioning about the return to nature and the pre-eminence of ecological issues, this box set offers for the first time an interview with the greatest French audio-naturalist; Jean-Claude Roché, put into perspective with the sound extracts of songs of birds and biotopes, which he collected throughout his life. Directed by Bernard Fort, founder of GMVL, this interview of more than 3 hours 30 minutes looks back on the journey of this Virgilian ferryman of the sounds of nature: from his meeting with the composer Olivier Messiaen, from the publication of the first album on the birds of Camargue which was going to obtain the Grand Prix of the disc of the Charles Cros Academy, until the realization of more than 150 recordings in different environments, guides of species and atmospheres, and finally the creation of the CEBA which was going to become the spirit of the French audio-naturalist school. This illustrated interview is the true manifesto of one of the greatest ambassadors of ecological testimony to the beauty of life.

Passionate about the occult, Victor Frankenstein is convinced that he can create life. In the solitude of his laboratory, one stormy night, his dream becomes reality ... and turns into a nightmare. He just created a monstrous being. Victor flees, terrified. But it is too late: the creature, rejected by all, is already preparing its revenge ... The subtle reading of François Hatt plunges the listener into the heart of this timeless masterpiece, at the crossroads of the horrifying and of the philosophical. This modern Prometheus myth, written in three days by young Mary Shelley, has turned literature upside down, and it continues to thrill the imagination.

(Booklet in French) the recordings presented on this disc were made in 1995, during a stay organized for Bernard Fort by Montreal University's Faculty of Music. The recordings presented on this record were made during a stay organized for Bernard Fort by Montreal University. This representation of Canadian soundscapes on seven sound tracks allows the listener to discover the pure beauty of these vast territories during spring and summer in a 70 minute long ecological symphony.

(2-CD set) The Cuban Rico's Creole Band was behind the grand years of Parisian world music and entertained the clientele of La Coupole for decades. Alain Boulanger presents the exotic sound heritage of post-war Paris. Tracks include NAGUE, BIM BAM BUM, MARIA DE BAHIA, DINORAH, TRES PALABRAS, LA MUCHICA, TU FELICIDAD, BABALOU, MANUELITA PALABRAS DE MUJER, BAILANDO LA GUARACHA, UN SOIR DE CARNAVAL, LA ULTIMA NOCHE, LE DANSEUR DU PERROQUET, ANGELITOS NEGROS, SOMOS DIFFERENTES.