Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library.
His entire archive was twice destroyed by the French colonial forces, but despite financial difficulties (he was hopelessly generous) a.
He more than fulfilled its motto "by the young, for the young," discovering the twenty-four-year-old Albert Camus in 1937.
Our Riches celebrates quixotic devotion and the love of books in the person of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of twenty founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore/publishing house/lending library