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7L Reading Room with Louis Langrée Louis Langrée (@louislangree ), Director of the Opéra-Comique (@opera_comique ) in Paris, shared with the Friends of 7L and of the Opéra-Comique his intertwined vision of literature and music. He spoke to Laurence Delamare, Head of 7L, about the essential books that accompanied him until today, from Marceline Desbordes-Valmore to Vladimir Jankélévitch. The readings that usually punctuate the conversation were replaced by musical notes from key operas among which ‘Tristan and Isolde’ by RichardWagner, ‘Pelléas and Mélisande’ or ‘Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun’ by Claude Debussy. A joyful and poetic moment. 📸 @matzazzo #Librairie7L #SalondeLecture7L #LouisLangrée #operacomique

Les Éditions 7L, Seghers (@editionsseghers ) et la villa Noailles (@villanoailles )sont heureux de vous annoncer la sortie en librairie des « Contes » de Marie Laure de Noailles. Préfacé par Arielle Dombasle (@arielledombasle ), ce quatrième ouvrage de la collection rassemble quatre contes et nouvelles : « Dix ans sur terre », premier livre signé Marie Laure en 1937, « La Tour de Babel » en 1942, « Les Îles invisibles » et « La Mandragore » en 1945. Ses œuvres sont toutes construites autour de figures mythiques qu’elle revisite à travers des récits oniriques inspirés de sa vie et de ses amitiés. La collection Marie Laure de Noailles s’emploie à faire redécouvrir l’œuvre littéraire de l’une des plus importantes mécènes du 20e siècle, figure emblématique des arts et des lettres. Contes de Marie Laure de Noailles Livre en français 25€ 📸 @matzazzo — Éditions 7L, Seghers and Villa Noailles are delighted to announce the publication of Marie Laure de Noailles’ “Contes”. With a foreword by Arielle Dombasle, this fourth volume in the collection brings together four tales and short stories: “Dix ans sur terre”, Marie Laure’s first book published in 1937, “La Tour de Babel” in 1942, “Les Îles invisibles” and “La Mandragore” in 1945. Her works are all built around mythical figures whom she reimagines through dreamlike tales inspired by her life and friendships. The Marie Laure de Noailles collection brings to light the literary work of one of the 20th century’s most important patrons of the arts, an iconic figure in the worlds of art and literature.

Librairie 7L (7L Bookshop) Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 10:30am to 7pm, the Librairie 7L proposes a carefully curated selection of books with a strong editorial line in the fields of photography, architecture, design, gardens, ceramics, fashion and arts, including catalogues of major international exhibitions. The bookshop offers a number of services among which a bespoke library curation service to create home or workplace libraries tailored to each client’s needs. A selection of 7L stationary is also available for sale, and our booksellers can help you create an exclusive 7L selection presented in a tote bag reflecting your own interests, for personal or company gifting. #Librairie7L #7LLibraryCuration #7LStationary 📸 @matzazzo

7L Correspondances, Dance “Small Bleu” by Katerina Andreou @katerina.s.andreou For the third edition of “Exquis”, choreographers were invited to respond in movements to the book “Respirer. La puissance créatrice du Souffle” by Maurice Fréchuret (published by Les presses du réel, 2024). After “Fracas x 7” by the duo François Chaignaud and Aymeric Hainaux, “France Musique” by Boris Charmatz, Katerina Andreou presented a new creation for this final chapter. “A dance that’s like diving into very cold water, a dance that suddenly springs into action and takes us by surprise. A dance that requires a deep breath before it begins. A dance that can literally take your breath away, even for few seconds. The starting point is this image, as physical as it is imaginery, as literal as it is metaphorical: the act of holding your breath. Take a deep breath, then ‘pause’. Until you exhale, during this suspended moment, there is a physical but also emotional intensity. It is the preparation for this exhalation, which comes with a necessity and a desire, that makes it powerful, strong and resonant, explosive, and cathartic even. The performance is based on this physiological principle that habits me - not as a mechanism, but as an image that reminds us of what it means to be alive, and that can express a kind of anger, but also resistance and resilience in this crazy and overwhelmed world.” said Katerina Andreou about her performance “Small Bleu” A programme in collaboration with Aymar Crosnier (Structuur) @aymarcrosnier ✨ #librairie7l #7LCorrespondances #Dance #KaterinaAndreou 📸 @marcdomage

7L Correspondances, Photography “Une cartographie de la guerre” by Paolo Pellegrin @paolopellegrin (Magnum Photos @magnumphotos ) in collaboration with Annalisa D’Angelo, Chiara Pellegrin and Bianca Ossicini By appointment only until July 4, 2026 Contact: [email protected] This installation is created as part of the 7L “Correspondances” programme, in which artists are invited to explore the collection of Karl Lagerfeld’s library and reinterpret it through their own perspective. “The library felt, from the very first threshold, like an initiatory space. You understand immediately that you have entered a private realm: the geography of an imagination. There is no definite order here, it is not you who finds the books – it is the books that find you.” Paolo Pellegrin Echoing the richness and diversity of the 7L library collection, Paolo Pellegrin moves through its shelves as one might traverse a territory. In the course of this exploration, he photographs the images that inhabit the books, from soldiers of the world wars to creatures drawn from medieval bestiaries. The images thus extracted from the pages of the 7L library are layered with his own photographs of contemporary conflict zones. This visual construction takes shape through his collaboration with the artist Chiara Pellegrin and the curator Annalisa D’Angelo. These fragments are reassembled into a new cartography, embodied in “Jeu des fortifications ou de la guerre”, an 1812 variant of the “Jeu de l’oie”, reproduced in the book “Cartes et figures de la terre”. The spaces on the board become meeting points between field and archive, uncharted territories where a representation of conflict takes form. The game appears as a miniature of reality, where each playing piece extends the player within a space that is at once symbolic and ritualized. Governed by chance, the journey becomes a mirror of existence itself, with its obstacles and setbacks not as an end, but as an invitation to begin again. 📸 @samuelkirszenbaum #Librairie7L #7LCorrespondances #PaoloPellegrin #MagnumPhotos

7L Music Room with Pierre-Yves Macé, In-Phono. In coproduction with Villa Médicis @villa_medici Drawing on the spirit of the space, artists are invited to transform the 7L library into a recording studio. Over a period of six months, musician and composer Pierre-Yves Macé regularly visited 7L, exploring the entire collection of 7L records while thinking about the creation of a unique musical score based on some excerpts from them. The result of this research was a series of two evenings split in two parts: the “off” where guests were invited to listen and play a selection of records that Pierre-Yves Macé particularly enjoyed and the “in”, a live recording session where he was joined by a pianist, a flutist and a cellist. Throughout the evening, Pierre-Yves Macé explained his research process and musical choices while orchestrating the live recording sessions. Conception & Composition: Pierre-Yves Macé Flutist: Cédric Jullion Pianist: Denis Chouillet Cellist: Maitane Sebastian Informatic patch: Julien Rabin Sound system installation: Motus 📸 @samuelkirszenbaum #Librairie7L #7LMusicRoom #pierreyvesmacé #villamedici

Carnets d’esquisses Saison 2025-2026 Librairie 7L, Paris 7e « On invente un autre duo à l’intérieur de celui qui existe en mémoire, en creusant, en improvisant avec cette matière, on retrouve des bouts, on a déconstruit. » Mardi 7 avril, nous avons eu le plaisir d’accueillir Emmanuelle Huynh & Boris Charmatz. Ensemble, ils ont présenté étrangler le temps, une œuvre vivante, façonnée dans la durée, entre mémoire, lenteur et réinvention. Une danse qui se transforme avec le temps, les corps et la relation, entre écriture et improvisation. Chorégraphie et interprétation Emmanuelle Huynh et Boris Charmatz Librement inspiré de bolero 2 (extrait du spectacle trois boléros, conçu par Odile Duboc et Françoise Michel, 1996) --- “We invent another duo within the one that exists in memory; by delving deeper, by improvising with this material, we rediscover fragments, we have deconstructed it.” On Tuesday, April 7, we had the pleasure of welcoming Emmanuelle Huynh & Boris Charmatz. Together, they presented Etrangler le temps, a living work, shaped over time, between memory, slowness, and reinvention. A dance that transforms with time, bodies, and relationships, between choreography and improvisation. Choreography and performance by Emmanuelle Huynh and Boris Charmatz Freely inspired by bolero 2 (excerpt from the show trois boléros, conceived by Odile Duboc and Françoise Michel, 1996) Images et réalisation : @studio_point_carre @sduhays @benjaminmillepied @librairie7l @mua.emmanuelle.huynh @terrain_bc

7L Reading Room with Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli Guests of the latest 7L Reading Room, Benoît Astier de Villatte @benoitastierdevillatte and Ivan Pericoli @ivanpericoli shared with the Friends of 7L a literary vision of their life, from their childhood in Italy to the invention of their common project ‘Astier de Villatte’ @astierdevillatte . A creative and playful world inspired by the search of lost time through disappearing shapes and spaces, paintings memories and a love for savoir-faire. They invited artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola to read Rilke’s foreword of ‘Mitsou’, a book republished by Astier de Villatte gathering drawings by the young Balthus. Benoît Astier de Villatte recalled his early years with his family at Villa Medicis where he met Setsuko for the first time, while Ivan Pericoli recollected their extraordinary discovery of Romain Gary’s ‘Promise of Dawn’. Actor Jean-Hugues Anglade also read an excerpt from ‘Discours à l’Académie suédoise’ by Patrick Modiano, an author they both love, and with whom they share a taste for the old guides of the city of Paris. 📸 @matzazzo #Librairie7L #Salondelecture7L #benoitastierdevillatte #ivanpericoli #astierdevillatte

7L Correspondances, Reading “L’Infini des mots” is a programme of literary and musical readings devised and directed this season by actor, movie and theatre director François Marthouret. The last chapter of the series intertwined different characters from William Shakespeare’s plays performed by Anne Alvaro and François Marthouret accompanied by Greg Zlap @gregzlap at the harmonica. An inspiring way to (re)discover major classical texts like “Measure for Measure ”, “Hamlet” or “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. 📸 @samuelkirszenbaum #Librairie7L #7LCorrespondances #FrançoisMarthouret #AnneAlvaro #GregZlap

7L April Book Signing Librairie 7L regularly hosts book launches and signings, open to all, in its bookshop, sometimes augmented with conversations in Karl Lagerfeld’s library. 📚On Thursday, April 9th, from 7pm to 9pm “Créateurs de style. La Nouvelle Vague de décoration à la française” by Eugenia Santiesteban Soto @eugeniasotophoto Publishing House: Éditions Monacelli @phaidonpress and Schumacher @schumacher1889 64,95€ The conversation between Laura Gonzalez @lauragonzalezofficiel and Jacques Grange @jacques.grange will be moderated by Alice Cavanagh @alicemcavanagh and Lindsey Tramuta @lindseytramuta It will take place at 7:15pm sharp and be followed by a book signing in the library in presence of @bonnefoymarine @fabriziocasiraghi @mariederoudilhe @diego_delgadoelias @dorotheedelaye @ateliermkd @haddou.dufourcq @clavesarchitecture @studioebur @florencelopez_atelier @elliepeugeotstudio @hugotoro_ 📸 @matzazzo 🎥 @clovislefeu #Librairie7L #7lbooksigning

7L Reading Room with Anne Heilbronn Anne Heilbronn @anneheilbronn , Vice President of Sotheby’s France @sothebys and Senior Director of the Books and Manuscripts department, shared her love for books with Laurence Delamare, Head of 7L. From searching, unveiling, and selling rare books and prestigious libraries to her passion for the French 19th century literature, she was surrounded by friends and colleagues who joined her for the evening. Writer Antoine Compagnon discussed Stendhal and Proust, actress Géraldine Pailhas read love poems from Apollinaire while Laurence Heilbronn selected an excerpt from “Deux étés 44” by François Heilbronn. Guillaume Fau shared his expertise working in the Manuscripts department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, with actor and screenwriter Christopher Thompson reading a letter from Alfred Dreyfus, and Sotheby’s expert and Director Benoit Puttemans one of the last letters from Rimbaud to his sister. Finally, Thierry Klifa discussed Claude Sautet’s films and the long-lasting impact of his cinema on his niece Anne Heilbronn. 📸 @_cha.gonzalez_ #Librairie7L #Salondelecture7L #7LReadingRoom #anneheilbronn #laurencedelamare

7L Behind the Scenes with photographer Gregory Halpern (Magnum Photos) Listen to Gregory Halpern @gregoryhalpern discussing his creative process and the production of his photographic series and installation: “Archive of the unknown”. Since the launch of the 7L Correspondances programme, artists are invited to explore the 7L library to share an alternative way to apprehend it through their own lense. Here, Gregory Halpern approached the library with the idea to altering, pairing and creating a new in response to images of others. A way to be back to a certain physicality of the beginning of photography and cinema. The exhibition “Archive of the Unknown” is extended until April 17, 2026! Book your appointment and join us for a tour of the exhibition: [email protected] In collaboration with @magnumphotos #Librairie7L #7LCorrespondances #GregoryHalpern #MagnumPhotos 🎥 @deux.deux.deux