Saint Ghetto des Prêts. Antique first published by René Char

first published by René Char in 1945 by Cahiers d'art

Coptic Study Library XVIII

as a site for ritual banquets

indulging in floral art

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Saint Ghetto des Prêts. Antique first published by René CharThis "grimoire" invites us to cross an incorruptible district within a world that is collapsing: That of Saint Germain des Prs. It is under poetic sociological finery that this ghetto, "the ring on the finger of Paris," is revealed. In an almost mythological vision, Pomerand restores its howlers, thugs, drunks, the church "the only savage in the neighborhood" , the intellectual whores, jazz and the "potes" (Cocteau, Vian, Sartre). Alongside this long,