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The Cologne Bookseller, winner of the SGDL Grand Prix

12 July 2021

Catherine Ganz-Muller's Cologne bookseller is the lucky winner of the SGDL Grand Prix du Roman Jeunesse 2021! Created by the Société des Gens de Lettres in 1947, this prestigious award recognizes, each year, confirmed authors for the quality of their novel.This year, the association has chosen to reward our young adult title, inspired by the history of the family of its author, Catherine Ganz-Muller. The novel plunges its readers into the heart of Nazi Germany, into the daily life of a German bookseller who tries, by all means, to keep a Jewish business alive at the risk of his own life. A true tribute to books and to freedom. This price is in addition to those we recently announced to you:The child of Oradour by Régis Delpeuch, which traces the true story of Roger, the only child survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre during the Nazi occupation, has meanwhile won the 2021 Youth Historical Novel Prize ( meeting of the history of Blois), selection CM2 / 6ème! The Eternal Drakkar, the adventure novel by Estelle Faye which transports her readers to the time of the Vikings, is the lucky winner of the 2021 Val Cérou Prize!

Tomboy Style: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion

6 April 2012

Tomboys are confident, rebellious, and adventurous. They are bold, brazen, fierce-and sexy. They aren't known for following rules, they are known for doing-and wearing-whatever they want. Tomboy captures the tomboy's style, her je ne sais quoi, her wardrobe, and most importantly, her spirit. ...

The real power of Bach flowers

17 January 2012

The true powers of the Bach flowers. 38 elixirs to treat itself daily is dued to appear on the February 1st to the Presses of Châtelet. As like the homeopathy, flower therapy, developed in 1930, comes as a total therapy of the ...

American Dior

7 December 2011

Christian Dior lived the American dream. From the first time he set foot in New York, the legendary designer had a special relationship with the United States. With the introduction of the New Look, Dior quickly became American fashion's ultimate agent ...

Dior Joaillerie

22 November 2011

First work dedicated to the know-how of the jeweller of the place Vendôme, Dior Joaillerie (Rizzoli, March, 2012) gives to the readers an immersion into the job of its artistic director. Scooping out her inspiration from a mixture of culture pop, of plant motives and ...

100 Unforgettable Dresses by Hal Rubenstein

6 November 2011

It's amazing that one feathered dress helped shape the most memorable number of the screen's greatest dance team, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. It's a rush to discover that a fabric developed for automobile upholstery became the source for Halston's most ...

Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel, Nazi Agent by Hal Vaughan

3 November 2011

Coco Chanel, high priestess of couture, created the look of the chic modern woman: her simple and elegant designs freed women from their corsets and inspired them to crop their hair. By the 1920s, Chanel employed more than two thousand people ...

The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957

27 October 2011

This lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, a decade that Christian Dior described as fashion's 'golden age'. Dior's 'New Look' collection of 1947 shocked and delighted the fashion world, creating a style that symbolised a ...

Smog by Jérôme HARLAY

21 October 2011

Overhanging the berry of Marseilles, Smog is as intriguing and menacing place. Around his silhouette in the architecture recalling of a failed boat, three family dramas evolve wildly as the world of the children avoids the control of the adults. A ...