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Tag Archives: Le Sursis
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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