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40th anniversary of the death of Hélène Roger-Viollet on 27 January 2025

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<span style="font-size:80%">A city of letters <br />Parisian Writers from Aragon to Zola</span>
© Albert Harlingue / Roger-Viollet

From November 21, 2024 to February 1, 2025

A city of letters
Parisian Writers from Aragon to Zola

An exhibition where literature and photography invite lovers of the French capital to take a stroll through the Paris of writers.
From Aragon to Zola, this literary primer takes visitors on a tour of the capital's neighborhoods, where writers lived their daily lives or fed their imaginations. From the cafés haunted by Paul Verlaine to the Halles in Émile Zola's Ventre de Paris, not forgetting the dark streets that follow Modiano…
Alongside this exhibition, street artist 13 bis will pay tribute to 100 years of Surrealism, by showing 7 original works.

The Roger-Viollet Gallery welcomes you from Tuesday to Saturday
from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Free admission.

6 rue de Seine 75006 Paris
Tél. + 33 1 55 42 89 09 -

Spotlight

  • 40th anniversary of the death of Hélène Roger-Viollet on 27 January 2025

    40th anniversary of the death of Hélène Roger-Viollet on 27 January 2025

  • Brigitte Bardot

    Brigitte Bardot

  • 2025, centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth

    2025, centenary of Pierre Boulez's birth

  • Montessori pedagogy

    Montessori pedagogy

  • 50 years ago Marcel Pagnol passed away

    50 years ago Marcel Pagnol passed away

  • Holidays by Janine Niepce

    Holidays by Janine Niepce

  • The pan

    The pan

  • News pictures France-Soir and of 1944-1945

    News pictures France-Soir and of 1944-1945

  • 100 years 24 hours of Le Mans

    100 years 24 hours of Le Mans

  • The aerostat around 1900

    The aerostat around 1900

  • Retirement home for lyric artists by Gaston Paris

    Retirement home for lyric artists by Gaston Paris

  • Large families

    Large families

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For your cultural events, we propose a choice of turnkey exhibitions, or to explore together our exceptional photographic archives for the production of made-to-measure projects.

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Our Photographers

  • Jacques Cuinières

    Jacques Cuinières

    Jacques Cuinières (1943-2020), as a photographer for the newspaper "L'Aurore", Jacques Cuinières covered French and international political news events from 1958 to the beginning of the 1980s. In [...]

  • Léon et Lévy

    Léon et Lévy

    Moyse Léon and Isaac known as Georges Lévy started their career as assistant operators at the Ferrier-Soulier Parisian photographic studio under the Second Empire. They founded their own studio in [...]

  • Jean-Louis Courtinat

    Jean-Louis Courtinat

    "For over thirty years Jean-Louis Courtinat has been developing a unique collection exclusively devoted to social photography. As a militant photographer, he bases his work on a true solidarity [...]

  • Jean Roubier

    Jean Roubier

    Born in Paris in 1896, Jean Roubier started his photographer and illustrator career at the age of 34. He served as a Captain on the Maginot Line in 1939 before being wounded and taken prisoner a year [...]

  • Felipe Ferré

    Felipe Ferré

    Felipe Ferré, a Colombian photographer, was born in 1934. First passionate with music, he later devoted himself to photography, focusing on architecture and urban crafts, especially in Paris. Just as [...]

  • Jack Nisberg

    Jack Nisberg

    Jack Nisberg was born in Chicago (USA) in 1922. He started studying photography but his course was interrupted when the U.S. entered World War II. At first he served on the Pacific front and later in [...]

  • François-Xavier Bouchart

    François-Xavier Bouchart

    François-Xavier BOUCHART (1946-1993), an architectural and landscape photographer who notably worked with the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Parc de la Villette, spent 7 years working on the sites [...]

  • Jean-Pierre Laffont

    Jean-Pierre Laffont

    Born in 1935, Jean-Pierre Laffont, studied photography at the Vevey school in Switzerland before returning to Algeria in 1960. As an infantry officer at the Cherchell military school, he was assigned [...]

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