Cette histoire qui a fait l'Alsace

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Cette histoire qui a fait l'Alsace (loosely translated: The story that gave birth to Alsace ) is a 12-volume comic series that has been published by the French publisher Éditions du Signe since 2009. The series traces the various epochs of the landscape and region that has been known as Alsace since the early Middle Ages - starting with prehistory , through the various empires and states and up to modern times . The series has so far only appeared in French .

Publication history

Marie-Thérèse Fischer , a doctor of theology and historian, wrote the scenarios for all twelve volumes. The texts were implemented in drawings by Robert Bressy , Marcel Uderzo , Francis Keller , Christophe Carmona and Didier Pagot and colored by Bénédicte Quinet, Géraldine Gilles and Jean-Paul Chhun ( Sambo ).

The first two volumes were officially published on October 23, 2009, and were presented on November 21 and 22 at the Salon du Livre de Colmar 2009 by Marie-Thérèse Fischer and Francis Keller. The twelfth and final volume is due to appear in 2014.

A German language version is not available.

Genre and presentation

Cette histoire qui a fait l'Alsace is a twelve-volume historical depiction of the history of Alsace in illustrated form. The individual volumes encompass time periods that delimit certain historical events.

The series uses the classic elements of the comic: a maximum of six to eight framed panels per page (but also full-page panels or cards); Speech and thought bubbles as well as rectangles with explanatory text integrated into panels. The colored drawings are realistic and true to detail, especially when it comes to buildings, clothing and (art) objects. The perspectives vary, occasionally also a bird's eye or frog's eye view .

Most volumes have 44 pages, with 40 pages telling the story. This is followed by 4 pages with summaries:

  • “ Une histoire ancrée dans le terroir ” consists of a full-page map showing the location of the places mentioned in the volume;
  • “ Pas à pas dans le temps ” provides a chronological overview of the entire volume in pictures and numbers;
  • " Un petit plus ... ", the last two pages, provide further explanations of the text (with a page number), for example in which museum a helmet or a piece of jewelry shown in the volume, or where an organ can be seen, or exactly which buildings from which locations are shown. There are also further references to historical facts that were not mentioned in the picture story, as well as suggestions for excursions for those interested in history.

Volume 9 also contains a 4-page dedication to Francis Keller, who died on July 29, 2011 at the age of 50 while working on drawings for this volume; his final panels are shown as black and white pencil sketches.

Volumes of the series

Volume (year) title Time period Draftsman / Colourist ISBN
1 (2009) L'Alsace avant l'Alsace Prehistoric times - 378 R. Bressy / G. Gilles ISBN 978-2-7468-2246-7
2 (2009) Alesacios 400-833 F. Keller / B. Quinet ISBN 978-2-7468-2247-4
3 (2009) D'un empire à l'autre 0834-1122 C. Carmona / G. Gilles ISBN 978-2-7468-2214-6
4 (2010) Le temps des Staufen 1125-1268 F. Keller / B. Quinet ISBN 978-2-7468-2215-3
5 (2010) Quand les villes se voulaient libres 1270-1477  M. Uderzo, C. Carmona / J.-P. Chhun  ISBN 978-2-7468-2473-7
6 (2010) In une Europe en ébullition 1477-1604 R. Bressy / B. Quinet ISBN 978-2-7468-2474-4
7 (2011) De l'aigle au lys 1605-1697 F. Keller / G. Gilles ISBN 978-2-7468-2558-1
8 (2011) Une province in the royaume de France 1698-1792 C. Carmona / B. Quinet ISBN 978-2-7468-2575-8
9 (2012) Allons enfants ... 1792-1815 F. Keller, C. Carmona / J.-P. Chhun ISBN 978-2-7468-2665-6
10 (2012) L'Alsace des Romantiques 1816-1871 R. Bressy / B. Quinet ISBN 978-2-7468-2732-5
11 (2013) L'Alsace dans le Reich 1871-1918 D. Pagot / J.-P. Chhun ISBN 978-2-7468-2733-2
12 (2014) Croire à la Paix 1919-2009 D. Pagot / B. Quinet ISBN 978-2-7468-2734-9

reception

  • On October 25, 2009 the newspaper Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace reported on the publication of the first two volumes.
  • From November 29, 2010 to February 21, 2011, the Bibliothèque Humaniste in Sélestat presented original pages from the series on the history of Séléstat. out.
  • The Féderation des Sociétés d'histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace has made a recommendation to purchase the volumes of Cette histoire qui a fait l'Alsace for school libraries .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Éditions du Signe, 67201 Eckbolsheim ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / editions-du-signe.societes-cotees.fr
  2. ^ Marie-Thérèse Fischer: Le Mont Sainte-Odile et les premontres, de 1546 a 1797 , doctoral thesis (Catholic theology), Université de Strasbourg (1999) (on www.theses.fr)
  3. ↑ Alsatian: Marie-Thérès Fischer, scénariste BD , 30 December 2013
  4. ↑ l'Alsace.fr: Décès - Francis Keller, peintre, dessinateur et rockeur , August 2, 2011
  5. ^ Front page L'Alsace avant l'Alsace
  6. ↑ front page Alesacios
  7. ^ Title page D'un empire à l'autre
  8. ^ Title page Le temps des Staufen
  9. ^ Title page Quand les villes se voulaient libres
  10. ↑ front page Dans une Europe en ébullition
  11. ^ Title page De l'aigle au lys
  12. ↑ Front page Une province dans le royaume de France
  13. ^ Front page Allons enfants ...
  14. ^ Title page L'Alsace des Romantiques
  15. ^ Title page L'Alsace dans le Reich
  16. ↑ Bernard Delattre L'histoire de l'Alsace en bandes dessinées (preview) , October 26, 2009
  17. ↑ François Uberfill: Cette histoire qui fait l'Alsace (Vol. 1-8) , Revue d'Alsache (Fédération des Sociétés d'histoire et d'Archéologie d'Alsace), Volume 138 (2012), pp 411-412