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Charmes de Londres

by Jacques Prévert & Izis

Published by Monza

  Prévert, one of France’s best loved poets, came to London in the fifties with Photographer Izis. The result was a book of poems on London, illustrated by Izis’ photographs. But after publication Prévert ‘tampered’ with the photographs, adding his own collages for his daughter. This very private book, printed from the original ‘graffitti’ copy intended to charm a little girl, has only recently been published in France for general pleasure.more
 
 
 
 
 
"Il est cinq heures, Paris s´éveille... Il est cinq heures, je n´ ai pas sommeil."


The famous song by Jacques Lanzmann and Anne Segalen (sung by Jacques Dutronc) might well serve as an epigraph for this beautiful anthology of poems and photographs from the City of Light.





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Paris Poète

by Catherine Aygalinc

Published by Hazan

 
 
 
 
 

 
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