The choice of poems, arranged chronologically, proves very spontaneous, without any ulterior motives that passionate love for texts of a gigantic beauty: the important notes thus made Villon, Ronsard, Corneille later, La Fontaine and Racine finally to Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine Peguy, Claudel or Apollinaire.
The anthology ends with a postscript in which Georges Pompidou to isolate some particularly wonderful. It will remain as one of the finest existing anthologies because it is the work of a lover of words and soul of poets.