Forgotten drawings of the events surrounding the Vel d'Hiv roundup by Cabu, dating from 1967, will be republished in June, Tallandier editions announced on Thursday.
Cabu, then a 29-year-old press cartoonist, had been asked by the magazine
Nouveau Candide
to illustrate the good pages of an event book,
La Grande Rafle du Vel d'Hiv, July 16, 1942
, written by two resistance fighters, Claude Lévy and Paul Tillard.
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"
Cabu is deeply moved by what he reads: he devotes sixteen large boards to the course of the roundup, draws the sets, the scenes, the faces, without leaving anything to chance
", indicated Tallandier in a press release.
In a book of memories published in 2001,
My Ve Republic
, the cartoonist, killed during the jihadist attack against Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, described a “
terrible book which will give me nightmares by illustrating it
”.
The work of Lévy and Tillard had been essential for the awakening by the public opinion of the role of the French authorities in the extermination of the Jews.
"Gifted, convict of drawing"
Cabu, the Rafle du Vel d'Hiv
is due to appear on June 23, before the 80th anniversary of this event which saw the arrest of more than 13,000 people in Paris and its inner suburbs.
A CNRS historian specializing in the Occupation, Laurent Joly, puts them in context.
He salutes the work of this “
gifted, convict of drawing
.
The contrast between the editorial line of Le
Candide (its highly touted covers, its mediocre intertitles) and the illustrations is also striking: with his precise line, the finesse of his gaze and his sensitivity, Cabu managed to sublimate a
flashy
editorial commission.
, says this researcher in his introduction.
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