“We are still bathed in an imaginary world of the French Revolution that is completely reactive” – Liberation

The second volume of “Revolution”, a successful historical comic, running from 1789 to 1795, has just been published. For “Liberation”, the two authors detail the issues raised by a modern narrative of this key period in the history of France.

This article is published as part of the “Libé tout en BD”, fully illustrated by cartoonists on the occasion of the opening of the 50th Angoulême festival. find all the articles of this edition hereand the newspaper on newsstands this Thursday, January 26.

A Breton nobleman who had gone to Paris and become an officer in the National Guard, his brother deputy from the third estate with centrist views, a young housewife who discovered the Enlightenment in the books lent to her by a progressive priest, a royalist pamphleteer who resembled Eric Zemmour, a street child who survives under bridges… These comic book characters Revolution give life to the revolutionary period, its great impulses, its questioning of everyday life, its permanence and its renunciations. Composed by four hands, in its script as in its drawing, the work of Florent Grouazel and Younn Locard, 36 and 39 years old, is a soap opera as much as a documented and very current story. At the dawn of the 50th edition of the Angoulême Festival, while their first volume, awarded the fauve d’or in 2020sold more than 80,000 copies and that the second, Equality – Book I, was released in January, the authors return to the challenges of delivering a narration of the Rev