A few berets in the beautiful graphic novel The Last Queen, by Jean-Marc Rochette:
It is 1920. The forests have grown too small for freedom. Édouard Roux, once an outcast youth feared as a child of bears and witches, is left disfigured and alone in the aftermath of the Great War. But when the animal sculptor Jeanne Sauvage grants Édouard the face of Hercules, life begins anew.
The two share an epic romance that takes them from the
cabarets and salons of Montmartre to the Vercors Massif mountains of Édouard’s
homeland. Amidst those mountains, in the Great Hall of the She-Bear, rests a
secret from older times…
In The Last Queen, Jean-Marc Rochette bridges war, love, art
and greed to shed tragic light on the longstanding struggle between nature and
modernity.
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