In 2008, François contributes to Place du Louvre youth website, alongside the authors Benedict and Emmanuelle de Saint Chamas. He received from the Grand Prix of the Fair of Bologna for the Atlas geographers of Orbae and a Witches Prix Special to reward his work award from youth specialist bookshops and Library Association of France.

This atlas was extended in 2010 by The d'Orbæ secret. In 1992, appears to Casterman Editions The last giants, then, between 19, the three volumes of the Atlas of d'Orbæ geographers, an imaginary atlas built on the principle of the alphabet. It helps other nonfiction books, and begins to illustrate novels, notably those of Michael Morpurgo. It shows a series of documentary books on the theme of travel and discover the world, and made his first steps in writing. In 1985, he met Pierre Marchand, publisher Gallimard Jeunesse, who notices his d'adolescent drawings. His first children's book illustrations appear in the Rose Library at Hachette. (1974-1977.) He worked for several years as a freelance illustrator for studios of graphics and advertising and professional journals. In 1985, he met Pierre Marchand, publisher Gallimard Jeunesse, who notices his d'adolescent drawings After a ferry literary, he makes visual communication studies at the Ecole Estienne.

moreĪfter a ferry literary, he makes visual communication studies at the Ecole Estienne. How can the devastated Yannick make things right again - and what surprising discoveries might come of it?.

But one evening the spell is broken when an important local comes for dinner and Yannick accidentally destroys a precious drawing the man leaves behind. So begins an idyllic month for the young city boy: roaming the gentle hills and rolling valleys and daydreaming about his beautiful cousin Amandine helping at his aunt and uncle’s bustling village inn feeling that he has come to the most wonderful place in the world. He has rarely been out of Paris, and if the paintings in his mother’s beloved Cézanne book are to be believed, surely Provence is paradise itself. When Yannick learns that he is to stay with his aunt Mathilde and her family in the South of France, he cannot believe his luck. When Yannick learns that he is to st From the author of War Horse comes a gentle, evocative story of a young city boy’s summer in 1960s rural Provence. From the author of War Horse comes a gentle, evocative story of a young city boy’s summer in 1960s rural Provence.

Meeting Cezanne by François Place