The wardrobe door

There is a wardrobe at the back of an empty room, a lamp-post in a snowy wood, and a lion who is not tame.

The reference site on Narnia and C.S. Lewis, written in French since 2005.

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The world of Narnia

Original places and maps, objects, peoples, and the whole history of Narnia, from the year 1 to the year 2555.

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Step into Narnia

The seven books

Seven novels published in seven years, translated into nearly fifty languages and sold in more than a hundred million copies: the series at a glance.

Des héros de tous les livres réunis sur une colline au crépuscule

The characters

One hundred and twenty-one entries, and a way to find your bearings: meet the characters of Narnia by families of stories rather than in alphabetical order.

The world

A land of fauns and talking beasts, a lion who sings the world into being, and seven books in which to travel it: welcome to Narnia.

Un enfant et un adulte lisent au coin du feu

Start here

You have never read Narnia, or you want a child to discover it? Here is a path in five steps.

Un bureau de professeur d'Oxford dans les années 1940

C.S. Lewis

A professor, a storyteller, a believer who doubted, a faithful friend: C.S. Lewis on one page.

On screen

From the 1967 television serial to Greta Gerwig’s film, sixty years of adaptations. Lewis himself was wary of an Aslan in the flesh.

Un réverbère dans la neige, des feuilles de nouvelles emportées par le vent

News

One short piece a day, named sources, checked facts: the news of Narnia and Lewis, told in French.

Un fauteuil près d'une armoire, une pile de livres et une lampe allumée

Narnia and Lewis in 34 answers

Should Narnia be read in publication order? Why is the ship called the « Dawn Treader » in one book and something else in an older translation? Will Greta Gerwig’s film open in Swiss cinemas? The 34 questions French-speaking readers ask us, in the order they arise, with a short answer and a link to go further.

In story order

The seven Chronicles of Narnia

Deux enfants au bord des mares dans un bois silencieux

The Magician's Nephew

London, summer 1900. Digory Kirke has just arrived at his uncle and aunt's because his mother is very ill. He makes friends with his neighbour, Polly Plummer, and together they explore

Lucy entre dans la neige à travers les manteaux

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

1940. To escape the bombing of London, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are sent to the country, to an old professor's house. The house is immense and full of

The Horse and His Boy

During the Golden Age, while the four Pevensies reign at Cair Paravel, a boy named Shasta grows up in the south, in Calormen, with a fisherman who treats him as a servant. The

Les enfants découvrent leur palais envahi par la forêt

Prince Caspian

A year after their first adventure, the four Pevensies are waiting for their train on a country station platform when an invisible force pulls them out of our world.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The first sentence sets the tone: there once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved the name. His cousins Edmund and Lucy have to spend the

The Silver Chair

At Experiment House, a school where the bullies are left to make the rules, Jill Pole is crying behind the gymnasium. Eustace Scrubb, changed by his voyage, tells her about N

The Last Battle

In the last days of Narnia, near the Cauldron, in the west, lives a cunning old ape, Shift, with his friend the donkey Puzzle, who never dares to contradict him. One day, they fish out a

From the 1955 book to the 2027 film: The Magician's Nephew according to Greta Gerwig

The new film, Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, opens in cinemas on 12 February 2027 (IMAX previews from 10 February), then on Netflix worldwide on 2 April 2027. In France, no theatrical release has been announced: the film is expected there only on Netflix, on 2 April 2027. Everything we know about the project is gathered in our film dossier.

Carte peinte sans inscriptions : forêts, grande rivière vers un château côtier, montagnes, désert et cité au sud

General map of Narnia and its neighbours

Narnia, Archenland, Calormen, the wild North and the Eastern Sea on a single original map.

Des enfants et une souris parlante autour d'une table de jeu dans une salle de château

From the lamp-post to the last king: twenty questions to test your memory of Narnia

A lamp-post, four signs, a mouse knight and a crowned cabman: do you know the Chronicles of Narnia by heart?

Un immense lion doré sur une colline au lever du soleil, face à la mer

Not a tame lion: Aslan in the books, in Lewis’s letters and on screen

A lion who sings a world into being, dies in a traitor’s place and returns in the morning. Who is Aslan, and what did Lewis himself say?

Not a tame lion
Aslan in the books, in Lewis’s letters and on screen