History

The high nobility's ambiguous relationship with money

By Antoine Lévêque · August 08, 2024

After the First World War, many aristocratic houses were forced to join forces with members of the upper middle classes in order to survive. Their relationship to money underwent a profound change. Many of them are now successful businessmen.

Literature

Marcel Proust's figures of idleness

By Antoine Lévêque · March 18, 2024

Dans «A la recherche du temps perdu», Proust parle beaucoup de la musardise des membres de la haute noblesse française auxquels il fut lié. Il nous rappelle par la même occasion que c’est sa vocation d’écrivain qui l’a empêché de devenir un véritable homme du monde.

Films

«This music plays for no one»: let us be savages in peace!

By Alice Bruxelle · 06 October 2021

The new Samuel Benchetrit...

Literature

Quentin Mouron: «Art has always seemed an artifice to me».»

By Jonas Follonier · 19 February 2021

Provocative dandy and observer of his times, Quentin Mouron questions progress and decadence in his novels. Meet a lucid writer who dismantles modern illusions without renouncing the beauty of the word.

Philosophy

Giving up

By Sébastien Oreiller · November 24, 2016

Eastern philosophy, particularly the Baghavad Gita, often emphasizes the principle of renunciation, renunciation of desires and...