François Jullien #1

A tense winter confrontation takes center stage on this 1985 Belgian-style album cover from Editions du Miroir — a Napoleonic-era soldier in blue draws a sword against a young man in civilian dress, while snow blankets the landscape around them. Hovering above the scene are the watchful faces of a fair-haired nobleman and a dark-haired woman in red, suggesting lives deeply entangled in the conflict below. With art credited to M. Jamar and script by F. Dehousse, Le Réfractaire opens the François Jullien series with an atmosphere of personal danger and period drama that promises compelling historical storytelling.