CRAYON NOIR. SAMUEL PATY, HISTOIRE D’UN PROF

CRAYON NOIR. SAMUEL PATY, HISTOIRE D’UN PROF

• Publishing Company:

  MILENA ASCIONE BOOKSAGENT

• Imprint:

  STUDIOFACT

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  GUY LE BESNERAIS (ILLUSTRATOR)

  VALÉRIE IGOUNET (AUTHOR)

• Number of Pages:

  160

• Cover price:

  0 23.00

• Publication Date:

  2023

• Age:

  YOUNG ADULT, ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

• Key words:

  TERRORISM, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES, TRUE CRIME, ATTACKS,

• Summary:

  An investigation on the tragedy of Samuel Paty’s murder and his last days.

  On the afternoon of October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty was murdered by a Chechen Islamist. He had just turned 47. He was the father of a little boy. Samuel Paty loved music, 80s rock, especially Sigur Rós, U2, Goran Bregovic, Pink Floyd and Apocalyptica. He was a discreet teacher, passionate about history and poetry, reading Baudelaire, Balzac, Maupassant, Zola, Flaubert and Julien Green. He often played chess. Tennis and ping-pong too. In the teachers’ lounge, he strolled around with his “Star Wars” mug in hand. His students liked him for his teaching… and for the jokes he wrote down in a notebook that was never far from his classroom notebook. He once told a former pupil: “I’d like my life and death to serve a purpose.”

  • Jean ZAY Prize 2024

  • Prix du Livre du Réel 2024

  • Student Prize for Political Comics (LCP-AN)

  Guy Le Besnerais has been experimenting with comics at the Ateliers des Beaux-Arts of Paris and joining the BD54 association. After a career as a research engineer, he decided to devote himself to illustration in 2021. ‘Crayon noir’ is his first graphic novel.

  Valérie Igounet is a historian, journalist and deputy director of the Observatoire du Conspirationnisme. Her research lies at the crossroads of political history and the history of ideas. A specialist in Holocaust denial, conspiracism and the extreme right in France after 1945, she has published several works on these subjects.