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Tag Archives: bande dessinee
Vignette: Les amants de Carcassonne—The Lovers of Carcassonne
If your taste in poetry is inclined towards the pure and noble, but at the same time, tragic, you need look no further than France’s Joë Bousquet (1897–1950). He was born in Narbonne, in the land of the Cathars and … Continue reading
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Tagged bande dessinee, Carcassonne, Joe Bousquet, LF Bollee, Linette, Luca Malisan
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Vignette: Nazis and the Occult
Médée: La Toison D’Or—Medea: The Golden Fleece by Ersel and Renot is an illustrated story that would delight anyone interested in Nazis and the occult, World War II, or the bandes dessinée genre, in general. Medea (Médée in French) of … Continue reading
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Tagged bande dessinee, Heydrich, Kristallnacht, Medea, Medee, Wewelsburg Castle
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This week in the War, 23–29 September 1940: Rose Valland—portrait of a heroine
This week in the war, on 24 September 1940, Mademoiselle Rose Valland received a grant of 10,000 francs to conduct research into art. Her adventures are described in Rose Valland: Capitaine Beaux Arts (Dupuis, 2009), a captivating book by Catel, Polack … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of the Defeat, bande dessinee, Battle of Britain, Carinhall, Hermann Goering, Hitler, Jeu de Paume, Laurence Bertrand Dorleac, Rose Valland
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Vignette: The art of Jean-Pierre Gibrat—The Flight of the Raven
One day, if I write a spy story set in Nazi-occupied Paris, with a bright young heroine named… Maybe her name doesn’t matter, but I would definitely write a scene where she escapes over the rooftops exactly as Jean-Pierre Gibrat’s … Continue reading
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Tagged bande dessinee, black market, French Resistance, Gestapo, Gibrat, Le Sursis, Le Vol du Corbeau
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Vignette: The art of Jean-Pierre Gibrat—The Reprieve
La bande dessinée—loosely translated as ‘comic strip’—is a veritable institution throughout French-speaking Europe. Everyone in France (and many in North America) are familiar with the illustrated tales of Asterix the Gaul. Belgian examples include Tintin, the boy detective, and the cowboy, … Continue reading
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Tagged bande dessinee, Gibrat, Le Sursis, Le Vol du Corbeau, Milice, Vichy
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