With his innumerable tattoos, his brown beard, his Queen logo t-shirt, we can easily imagine him as a guitarist in a rock band.
Outsmarting all these clichés, Xavier is a palliative care nurse.
You could say that being around death is his job.
Rather tell him that his job is to celebrate life, until the last moments.
À la vie
(1) is the title of his first graphic novel, released in 2020. This self-taught designer of 36 years was spotted on Instagram where his sensitive sketches on his daily life as a caregiver in a palliative care service in Moselle have attracted more than 150,000 subscribers.
He recounts this unusual vocation in a second volume,
Je serai là
(2), released in January.
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With his calm voice and his gentle gaze lost behind large glasses, this tall, 1.93 m tall fellow is described by his colleagues as a
"marshmallow stuck in a mirror cabinet"
.
His drawings reflect his infinite delicacy to heal with words, gestures,
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