Juillard - Lot 75

Juillard ANDRÉ JUILLARD PLUME AUX VENTS Ni Dieu ni diable (T.4), Dargaud 2002 Original plate no. 18. Signed. India ink and colored inks on paper 31.9 × 43.9 cm (12.56 × 17.28 in.) Suspected of supporting the English blockade of the French colony commanded by Samuel de Champlain, Germain Grandpin is condemned to hang with Condor, his brother-in-arms, a.k.a. Chevalier Gabriel de Troïl, Ariane's real father. Algonquins, Montagnais, Outaouais, Hurons and Iroquois have all come, hoping, who knows, for a celestial intervention... Has the knight not become a true legend for them? The knight no longer believes in God or the devil, or even in man, with the exception of a few, including his daughter, her lover and myself, her former husband. Beau-Ténébreux From the very first strip of this eighteenth plate of Ni Dieu ni diable, the final part of the Plume aux vents tetralogy, André pays particular attention to the outfits of the native peoples and settlers of New France, drawing on Champlain's illustrated journal and the abundant documentation provided by Alain Goutal, Francis Back and Jean-Charles Bernardini. In the middle section, Grandpin rivets his nail to a Jesuit, then greets Ariane and Beau. Beau predicts that he will see him again when the Great Spirit, Wacondah, chooses. "If you say so," Grandpin replies skeptically. The last strip allows André Juillard to re-draw some of the Indian "beautiful souls": Vieille-Loutre and Vieux-Castor, Beau's parents, and his little sister Herbe-folle. The reader is reacquainted with old acquaintances such as Yvon de Troïl and his son Guillemot, and the Green Giant himself, King Henri IV, who was, let's not forget, one of the seven official lives of the Sparrowhawk.