Ardemment

Editions ardemment is a French independent publishing house founded in 2021, specializing in works on "feminine" issues, notably as part of the "Les Ardentes" series, dedicated to the republication of "powerful" women writers of the past whose words and writing resonated powerfully, challenged the codes of their gender by overstepping patriarchal territory, and still embody the models of today's avant-garde.

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7 titles

$Valentine de Saint-Point - L\'ardeur et la conquête$

Valentine de Saint-Point
L'ardeur et la conquête

2025

French edition

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

$Isabelle Eberhardt - Où l\'amour alterne avec la mort$

Isabelle Eberhardt
Où l'amour alterne avec la mort

2024

French edition

A selection of original texts by Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), revealing the author's sororal empathy for the condition of the Bedouin women of the Maghreb whom she encountered during her desert wanderings, dressed as a man.

Claire Tencin
Affreville

2023

French edition

A polyphonic narrative set in France's post-colonial era, Affreville recounts family memories, as well as the shadowy corners of official history and the silence of survivors, in order to lift the veil of silence under which the Algerian war was kept.

Juliette Adam
Une féministe contre Proudhon

2023

French edition

The emancipatory pamphlet by a young feminist against the misogyny of the father of anarchism.

Habiba Benhayoune
Cœur berbère

2022

French edition

An invitation to reflect on exile and self-building (novel).

$Louise Colet - La vérité sur l\'anarchie des esprits - suivi de Edgar Quinet, l\'esprit nouveau$

Louise Colet
La vérité sur l'anarchie des esprits – suivi de Edgar Quinet, l'esprit nouveau

2022

French edition

currently out of stock

An account of the Paris Commune by Louise Colet, the great 19th-century author and Flaubert's famous mistress, who makes her political, republican, anticlerical and feminist positions explicit here.

Claire Tencin
Alexandrine de Tencin – Femme immorale du XVIIIe siècle

2022

French edition

Claire Tencin retraces the tumultuous life of Alexandrine de Tencin (1682-1749), a libertine and libertarian woman of letters, at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment, in a mirror-image dialogue with her character.