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Do we ever think about the role colour plays in our lives? Probably not. After all, we are so accustomed to the colourfulness of the world that we hardly notice it in the whirlwind of modern life. However, colour has a long, rich and mysterious history.

Do you want to know when yellow became the colour of victory and why children don't like purple? Why the red car doesn't suit the venerable 'father of the family' and does sleeping on black sheets really mean calling the devil to your bed at night? Why did green get a bad name in the Middle Ages, which sometimes haunts it even today, and why stripes on clothes were perceived as something indecent until recently?

Take a fascinating journey with the French historian Michel Pastoureau, an erudite dreamer, an interesting storyteller, and a renowned colour expert. His half-century-long chromatic diary (1950-2010) traces the history of colours in France and Europe and covers almost all areas of human life: clothing and food, sports and cinema, literature, language and painting, emblems, coats of arms and flags, museums, the subway, and more. Colours are all around. It's worth seeing them.