Word: giraud
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...Fiction and Fantasy," the visitor will find that a comic strip genre popular in nearly every country except, for whatever reason, the United States. Here you'll see the original incarnation of "Barbarella" in Jean-Claude Forest's slinky black-and-white panels and the classic work of Jean Giraud, a master of the realist style known to science-fiction comics readers throughout Europe and the United States by the pseudonym Moebius...
STORY OF WOMEN. In 1943 the Vichy government of France condemned Marie-Louise Giraud to the guillotine for the crime of performing abortions. In this eloquent work, Marie (Isabelle Huppert) is neither a monster nor a savior, but a microcosm of her amoral country...
...Vichy government condemned Marie-Louise Giraud to the guillotine for the crime of performing abortions. She was one of the last three women executed in France. If her story were made into an American TV movie, Giraud would cut one of two familiar figures. She might be a pioneer battler for reproductive rights, bravely tending to the misery of her countrywomen. Or she could be the cold and soulless predator, robbing a besieged nation of its progeny...