Catherine Meurisse • The Year of Comics at Collège de France

Catherine Meurisse

She was born in 1980. After a curriculum in modern literature, she continued her studies at the École Estienne, then at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. In 2005, she joined the Charlie Hebdo team. She also draws for magazines and daily newspapers and illustrates children's books for various publishers. She has signed several comic books, including Mes hommes de lettres (éditions Sarbacane, prefaced by Cavanna), or comment comment faire entrer avec humour toute la littérature française dans un seul album, Savoir-vivre ou mourir (éditions Les Échappées, preface by Claire Bretécher), a guide to the good manners taught by the Baroness de Rothschild, Le Pont des arts (Sarbacane editions), a tale of friendships between painters and writers, and Moderne Olympia (Futuropolis editions), a rereading of the myth of Romeo and Juliet. In January 2020 she became the first draftswoman elected to the Academy of Fine Arts.

Bénédicte Savoy

An alumuna of the École normale supérieure (Fontenay/Saint-Cloud), she has been Professor of art history at the Technical University of Berlin since 2009, where she holds a chair dedicated to "Art History as Cultural History" (Kunstgeschichte als Kulturgeschichte). She is the author of numerous books, including Patrimoine annexé. Les biens culturels saisis par la France en Allemagne autour de 1800 (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 2003), Nofretete. Eine deutsch-französische Affäre, 1913-1931. In 2018, she published with Felwine Sarr Restituer le patrimoine africain (Le Seuil/Philippe Rey, 2018). Bénédicte Savoy is a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 2016 she was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.