Les Éditions des Saints Pères specialises in the publication of facsimile editions of important manuscripts. Founded in 2012, Les Saints Pères’ conception is intimately linked with a love of literature as well as an appreciation of unique and beautiful objects. In the context of our increasingly digitized world, our goal is to restore the magic of the manuscript as a pure and untouched vehicle between the artist and their work.

CHARLOTTE BRONTË

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We feel strongly about the importance for today’s reader to be able to connect with the author’s hand, and delve into the text of the manuscript.

You can find all of our manuscripts in our catalogue : Les Contes de Perrault (Perrault's Tales), Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, Le Mystère de Jean L'oiseleur (The Mystery of Jean the Birdcatcher) by Jean Cocteau, Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) by Victor Hugo, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) by Jules Verne, Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventures Under Ground) by Lewis Carroll, La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) by Jean Cocteau, L’Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream) by Boris Vian, Le Mépris (Contempt) by Jean Luc Godard, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire, Candide by Voltaire, Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust, and Hygiène de l’assassin (Hygiene and the Assassin) by Amélie Nothomb.

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Our editions

• Alcools Apollinaire's manuscripts assembled around a set of corrected proofs.
• Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (Around the World in 80 Days): Jules Verne's manuscript.
• Les Contes de Perrault A manuscript from 1695. 
• Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë's unpublished manuscript.
• Le Mystère de Jean l'oiseleur One of Jean Cocteau's lesser known masterpieces.
• Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame): Victor Hugo's masterpiece manuscript. 
• Madame Bovary (Madame Bovary): Gustave Flaubert's original manuscript.
• Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventures Under Ground): Lewis Carroll's handwritten and illustrated manuscript.
• À la recherche du temps perdu - Les manuscrits de la madeleine (In Search of Lost Time): Marcel Proust's madeleine manuscripts (previously unpublished).
• Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil): The corrected proofs of Baudelaire's famous collection.
• Candide (Candide): The elusive manuscrit of Voltaire's masterpiece. 
• Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea): Jules Verne's original manuscript.
• Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night): Louis-Ferdinand Céline first manuscript.
• Le Mépris (Contempt): Jean-Luc Godard's handwritten screenplay for Contempt.
• La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast): Jean Cocteau's original handwritten and illustrated screenplay for Beauty and the Beast.
• L'Écume des jours (Froth on the Daydream): Boris Vian's manuscript, written at the age of 26 at his day job as an engineer.
• Hygiène de l’assassin (Hygiene and the Assassin): The manuscript for Amélie Nothomb's first novel.

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