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The story of Gerard Janus began as a family quest: his father, Werner, his paternal grandfather, Georges, who underwent the Nazi purge.
Quite quickly, from discovery to discovery, this story crossed paths with another: the story "that does not pass", as German historians use to say. And the well-kept secrets of the Lutheran Church of Alsace at the time of the Annexation.
Today, as a pastor but also simply as a man, Gérard Janus delivers the discoveries he has extracted from the abode of (...)

"The Bookcase” is a poetic illustrative album, without words.
The story of two children’s journey through Jack’s different worlds: the sea, the books, the bales of straw, the stars…
To travel from one color to another one you need to take astonishing paths.
Born at Strasbourg in France, Jack Koch was a teacher before devoting himself to illustration. He is very active and popular in social medias.
Genre: poetic illustrations – compilations of drawings
Number of pages: 36
Keywords: without (...)

Ernest Schmitt was born before WWI into a small Catholic peasant family, near the Swiss border. During the 30s, he became a lawyer in Strasbourg and married the daughter of his boss, a prominent member of the Protestant high society.
He will try to build his life as a man during a few decades deeply marked by the madness of mankind and the excesses of History.
On june 5th 1956 he disappears suddenly.
“Shadow Lives” evokes those entire generations who never really had the chance to lead (...)

From Lata Petra, a Celtic community in the Vosges forests where he was born, Aulus Dagillius Lupulus, a young Roman citizen, leaves to join the Roman Legion to quench his thirst for adventure through the roads of the Empire.
From the battlefields of Germania to the intrigues and perversions of Rome, he will experience the clash of arms and the bites of love.
The story of Lupulus plunges us into every detail of the imperial daily life of the 2nd century AD. A dazzling reconstruction. (...)

Five years before the Great War, Sherlock Holmes is sent to Continental Europe to thwart the plot of England’s future enemy: Wilhelm II.
Genre(s):
• Detective fiction • Sherlock Holmes pastiche
Keywords:
• Sherlock Holmes • Investigations • Victorian Era • Wilhelm II • The Holy Lance
Audience: suitable for all audiences; fans of historical fiction, investigations, and Sherlock Holmes pastiche.
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Five years before the Great War, Sherlock Holmes is sent to (...)

All three albums are the work of two big names in the 9th Art: Roger Seiter’s efficient plotlines pair perfectly with Giuseppe Manunta’s magnificently cinematographic artwork.
Genre(s):
• Comics and graphic novels • Detective fiction • Adventure • Historical (19th century) Keywords:
• Sherlock Holmes • Crime • Victorian Era
Audience: suitable for all audiences; fans of comics
Rights sold abroad: Spain
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V. 1: 5 years before the Great War, Sherlock Holmes is sent to Continental Europe (...)

A fictional tale inspired by true stories: three women, three mothers, three eras over the course of the 20th century; three variations on intimacy, femininity, and relationship with God. A fictionalized portrait of the modern Jewish woman.
Genre(s):
• roman-fleuve (3 generations) • personal testimonial narratives
Keywords:
• History (20th century, anti-Semitism) • Jewish identity • Male-female relationships • Feminism • Integration
Audience: suitable for all audiences and all ages; readers (...)

On this day of Yom Kippur, the entire Jewish community of Strasbourg has gathered at the great synagogue. But Shimon Lévy, the hazàn, the brand new cantor with a magnificent voice, is not here. And for good reason: he was stabbed just before the celebration.
Adrien Blum, the vice-president of the community, guides the police commissioner Jean-Pierre Schweitzer, in charge of the investigation, to the synagogue. The two men will quickly become friends.
Say your prayer, Shimon Lévy is a thriller (...)

What an amazing life that was the one of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi! A great traveler, the father of the Statue of Liberty had visited Italy, Ethiopia, Egypt, and the United States.
He met Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Suez Canal construction site, was received by two presidents of the United States, was familiar with the artistic circles of the Second Empire, was an emissary of the Republican government of Gambetta, an aide-de-camp of Garibaldi…
This intense activity had never prevented him (...)