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Luc Ferry

Family at the centre of our life

The twentieth century has been corrosive an acid. Like the monumental statues of dictators which we have seen falling heavily on the news, traditional values have also been destroyed, or shaken. ...

Family at the centre of our life

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Ingrid Betancourt

Until Death Do Us Part

INGRID BETANCOURT HAS JUST BEEN FREED! Her memoirs, “Until Death Do Us Part” (original title: La Rage au coeur), has been published by XO in 2001. This woman is a heroine. In this ...

Until Death Do Us Part

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Mike Horn

Objective: The North Pole by Night

After Conquering the Impossible, Mike Horn takes us on a journey into darkness and ice that defies reason. “In front of us gaped the mouth of Hell. An endless night, abysses of cold where no ...

Objective: The North Pole by Night

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Brigitte

I live on your doorstep

« I’m speaking from experience, you can have valid papers, a job, a family, friends, and still have to sleep outside. » An exceptional testimonial: for the first time, a homeless woman tells her ...

I live on your doorstep

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Justine

From Now On I don’t Eat Anymore

From a blog to a book, a girl’s fight for teenagers’ lives 200 000 young people are affected today 9 out of 10 are girls 2% of the girls concerned are from developed countries. A journey into the ...

From Now On I don’t Eat Anymore

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Nadia Volf

We Chose Freedom

The extraordinary journey of a visionary woman doctor, from the USSR in the 80s, to France, land of rebirth and recognition. Nadia is Russian, born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in 1961. Her ...

We Chose Freedom

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Dominique Wiel

Lord, Have Pity on us.

Unjustly sentenced at the Outreau trial, Dominique Wiel gives us in this autobiography his views on justice and on our society: a fundamental document «I have retraced my steps from the ...

Lord, Have Pity on us.

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Zlata Filipovic

Stolen Voices

A collection of particularly powerful, emotional testimonials of children in the war from 1914 to 2004, among which Zlata’s own, an internationally acclaimed journal, that became a bestseller ...

Stolen Voices

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Emmanuel Davidenkoff

Wake Up, Jules Ferry, they’re going mad!

A controversial book about a national scandal: the complete failure of secondary schools and of their mission. French high schools, cornerstones of the educational system, are failing ...

Wake Up, Jules Ferry, they’re going mad!

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Nicolas Sarkozy

My Testimony

“As far as I can remember, taking action has always been one of my watchwords. I have always been fascinated by the possibility of changing the everyday life, of making the impossible ...

My Testimony

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Gilles Gaetner

The Clearstream scandal

When truth is stranger than fiction… For almost three years, an imbroglio threatens many French State dignitaries. The affair has got a name – Clearstream -, possesses dark ramifications in ...

The Clearstream scandal

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Kamran Nazeer

Send in the Idiots

In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York City alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these ...

Send in the Idiots

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