I’m currently back in London, but this morning I visited the “museum of images” in Epinal. I’m finally starting to understand what all the fuss is about, and why the town loves us so much. In the 19th and 20th Centuries Epinal was home to Pellerin & Co, one of the originators of story telling using sequential art (what the French call Bande Dessinée and we call comics). Working through the Humoristic Publishing Company of Kansas, Pellerin was apparently responsible for the first comic ever to be published in the USA. There’s not much on the web about them in English, but you may find this interesting. I’ll have more to say about this in my con report, but right now I need sleep.
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If I had known, I would have come with you ! Yesterday in the morning, I spend the time before my departure doing… nothing ! I have never seen this museum, but, when I was a little girl, I had an old book with “Images d’Epinal”… plenty of dreams and nithmares (La Barbe Bleue)
All the best :-)) Lucie
Ah, sorry, that would have been fun. However, had you been there I would not have had to practice my French, and it is very much in need of practice.
Je ne crois pas, en fait. J’étais tellement fatiguée que j’aurais été incapable de parler anglais et que tu aurais été obligée de me parler en français 😉
Tu es tres amiable. Mais je veux lire tous les livres que j’ai été donné.