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The Countess of Ségur gave him an Inn ... What supernatural being is this? Of a guardian angel , of course, in his famous novel published in 1863, The Guardian Angel Inn ! The guardian angel is timeless. Christian mystics have reported interactions and conversations with their guardian angels for many years. And even today, the guardian angel has its place in the Catholic Church: Pope Francis recently recalled that, according to the tradition of the Church, “we all have an angel who protects us and makes us feel things.” In his new novel Maxime 24, douce agonie , Fréville...

It can be associated with Morpheus , or the little elf Close-l'œil from Andersen's tale, but it is also a profession that was once very useful! What is it? It's the sandman ! In fact, although he is known to children as a fabulous character who drops sand on people's eyes to put them to sleep, it is initially a real profession . The sandman sold white sand which was thrown on the floors of the inns in the morning and then swept away in the evening. The Sandman is also a short story written by Nathalie Vanmalle, in which...

“ Abandoned populations , trust the German soldier !” When was this tempting announcement made? From the period of the occupation of France by Germany, of course! And even a little before, in fact! This apostrophe appears in large letters on a German propaganda poster, posted in France from June 1940. It is in this occupied France that Christophe Vieu brings to life the hero of his work La belle âme . In a beautiful interweaving of stories, with his rare pen , mistress of rhythmic and musical sentences, he skillfully distils the atmosphere of the first steps of the...

Hélène Honnorat's career as an author began with a parachute jump (Le dessous du ciel, Buchel-Chastel, under the pseudonym Dominique Piett), and her penultimate opus is a eulogy to the suitcase (Sois sage ô mon bagage, Yovana). Between a leap into the void and a leap into the unknown, a journey through space and a journey through time, his life and his work, carried away by a lively writing style, are built around movement. It would be simplistic to describe her as a writer-traveler, because in her works, Hélène Honnorat does not just pass through. She settles, builds, creates connections....

Dothraki , Klingon , Na'Vi , Sindarin … Does that ring a bell? Yes, probably… This brings to mind Game of Thrones , Star Trek , Avatar or The Lord of the Rings ! Because these are languages ​​invented for these works of fiction, languages ​​that did not exist before they were (almost) created from scratch for the needs of the series or film! Disorienting the viewer, creating a strange effect in order to increase their immersion in a fictional universe, these are some of the objectives sought… But the disadvantage of these constructed languages, of course, is that they...