Philippe Torreton was a member of the Comédie Française from 1994 to 1999. He played the greatest roles on stage: Scapin, Tartuffe, Harlequin, Henri V, Richard III, Hamlet or Galilée and won the Molière for the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac. A great theater and film actor, he received a Caesar for his role in “Capitaine Conan” by Bertrand Tavernier. He is also the author of a dozen books including “Same», «Letter to a young actor” and “A certain reason to live“.
May this joyful book accompany you everywhere, may it wipe away your tears in order to make others flow bigger and fuller, may it enlighten you in your nights of broad daylight, may it reveal to you a horizon of events, may he betray you. It’s not actually a book but a survival kit in hostile territory. A Swiss knife. Write on it, turn up the pages, let go of your sobs, that’s what this book is for.” Philip Torreton.
More than 150 poets, more than 300 poems: Louise Labé, Richard Coeur de Lion, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard, Paul Scarron, Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Corneille, Nicolas Boileau, Molière, Denis Diderot, Marceline Desbordes -Valmore, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine, Germaine de Staël, Alfred Jarry, Théophile Gautier, Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Alphonse Allais, Anna de Noailles, Lautréamont, Paul Valéry, René Char, Tristan Tzara, Charles Péguy, Paul Éluard, André Breton, Blaise Cendrars, Marguerite Yourcenar, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Prévert, Henri Michaux, Jean Genet, Boris Vian, Francis Ponge, Louis Aragon, Marguerite Duras, Barbara, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Brel, Georges Moustaki, François Cheng, Yves Bonnefoy, Andrée Chedid, Christian Bobin, Dominique Sampiero and many others. (Presentation of Calmann-Levy editions)