A young disabled man realizes his dream of being an actor. But blinded by the artificial light of success, he loses his inner light, until he tries...

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong...

A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the...

The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, also recounts the tormented conversion of its...