Seeing her husband's office restored, Véronique Brachet-Cabu had tears in her eyes.
The indescribable clutter, the piles of papers and newspapers in precarious balance, the shelves packed to the brim, all this "merry mess" which constituted the universe of the cartoonist journalist has been patiently reconstructed by two scenographers.
The "room", which was photographed in January 2015, opens a stunning retrospective dedicated to the designer, in rooms of the town hall of Paris.
Voluntarily, the exhibition is entitled "The laughter of Cabu" - it is not because madmen wanted and had his skin that his memory must be tinted of black.
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Born in 1938 Jean Cabut, whose real name was, was an
“all-terrain”
columnist
, explains Jean-François Pitet, curator of the exhibition and archivist of the designer collection.
Working among other things in
France evening,
for the Ben Barka trial, at
HaraKiri,
at the
Journal du dimanche
, at the
Canard enchaîné,
at the "Club Dorothée", then at
Charlie Hebdo
,
Cabu was always
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