To live in harmony with oneself, to be calm, to learn to relativize, to seek happiness in all things ... over the texts gathered in this book we discover that serenity is a timeless quest. From antiquity to the present day, thinkers and philosophers have been thinking about it. In Chinese wisdom, serenity comes from a simple existence, in accordance with nature. Among the Greek Stoics it passes by the renunciation and acceptance of things. The Epicureans link it more to the sweetness of life and pleasure. In the eighteenth century, Madame du Châtelet associated with self-knowledge, while in the nineteenth, Rilke said it was necessary to seek solitude ... So many philosophical precepts that everyone is free to apply to become more serene, and happier ...

Learn how to correctly ask for a fire on the page. Do not put your feet on the benches of the trains, they are not always clean, you will dirty your Nike.Can we say "to your wishes" to someone who has farted? Learn to respect others, and why not to love them.Will you have the right to say "your mouth" to a cicada? You have nothing to give, give your seat.What to do when we find a worm in his salad? And a crocodile? Caution, do not put your player too strong for the benefit of others. The others, they only have to buy one.And never forget that in any place, in all circumstances, the strong must priority to the weak.

"Aged thirty thousand days, Maurice Genevoix looks at the present of his past and the timeless duration of his present, in a book that if there is a miracle of softness and balance French, would be the most pure verbal incarnation. "

"93 years old. The end is not far off. How lucky to be able to use it to recall what served as the basis for my commitment
political: the program developed sixty-six years ago by the National Council of Resistance! How lucky to be able to feed us
from the experience of this great resistance, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Rights
of the man of 1948, raised to the dignity of Ambassador of France and Commander of the Legion of Honor!

For Stéphane Hessel, the "basic motive of the Resistance was indignation. Certainly, the reasons for indignation in the world
Today's complex may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But "search and you will find": the growing gap
between the very rich and the very poor, the state of the planet, the treatment of undocumented migrants, immigrants, Roma, the race to
ever more, to the competition, the dictatorship of the financial markets and up to the acquired benefits of the Resistance Retirement, Security
social ... To be effective, it is necessary, as yesterday, to act as a network: Attac, Amnesty, the International Federation of Human Rights ...
are the demonstration.

So, we can believe Stéphane Hessel, and follow him, when he calls for a "peaceful insurrection".

The author unrolls with erudition his subject according to many axes of analysis. Specific examples, clear and affordable style, it allows us to identify the global event of Chinese growth. In particular, it illustrates the discriminatory nature of the economic takeoff of the Middle Kingdom: its mass. This one jostles all the priori, all the paradigms taken from previous economic takeoffs.
Nevertheless, it would have been interesting to study the cultural and sociological aspects, not to be content with the Western point of view. So, what is the impact of frenzied individualism in a Chinese society, where the collective was the foundation of social life? What are the impacts of growing social inequalities, screaming, between a thin layer of privileged plus a new middle class and the huge cohort of left behind, proletariat overexploited and sacrificed on the altar of development?
In addition, many questions hang over the future of Chinese power: will you favor multipolarism in the management of international relations, or will you not want to assert itself as an ultra-dominant center?
However, we can only agree to its conclusion: With the economic rise of China, the world will never be like before ...

"What I would like to see the dream so beautiful!" (autumn leaves)

Victor Hugo never went to the East. And yet one can not write a history of Romantic Orientalism without reserving a major place for the author of the Orientals, who for a long time remained a reference and a model for Orientalist literature, painting and music. Beyond this poetic brilliance, the whole work of Victor Hugo is haunted by the "question of the East", this question posed to the East, and to the West by the East, an opportunity to 'a reflection on the bitter dialogue between peoples and cultures, on Europe facing its' other', on the intimate entanglement of identity and otherness. The volumes of this collection thus propose a trip, somewhat vagabond, in the East of Victor Hugo.

"I will never know where she spent her days, where she was hiding, with whom she was during the winter months of her first run away and during the few weeks of spring when she escaped again . This is his secret. A poor and precious secret that the executioners, the ordinances, the so-called occupation authorities, the depot, the barracks, the camps, the history, the time - everything that defiles and destroys you - will not have been able to steal." 

A book for children about Picasso's art with an explanation and charades.