Cinq chefs-d’oeuvre inconnus. Photographie on June 22

on June 22

published on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987)

inversely proportional to its length

this ambition is not unrelated to Vermeer's Catholicism

L’étude de cette collection a été menée en deux temps : tout d’abord la recension de 358 objets (sur les 1000 à 1500 pièces que constituent la collection) lesquels ont été photographiés

Cinq chefs-d’oeuvre inconnus. Photographie on June 22According to the most brilliant researchers, it would have taken something like fifty thousand cups of strong coffee for Balzac to write his Human Comedy; a monument of writing whose exact contents are often difficult to say, unless you are a specialist. Of course, and notably thanks to the school and the film adaptation, a few titles have been able to emerge from this prodigious lot. Perhaps Le Pre Goriot, Le colonel Chabert, or even Eugnie Grandet,