Histoire dessinée de la France #8

A striking medieval tableau greets you on this cover: a skeletal Death looms large with scythe raised, presiding over a battlefield strewn with fallen figures, while a fortified castle burns in the background against a vivid, illuminated-manuscript-inspired landscape. Histoire dessinée de la France #8, subtitled À la vie, à la mort — Des rois maudits à la guerre de Cent Ans, brings together writers Étienne Anheim and Valérie Theis with artist Sophie Guerrive to explore one of France's most turbulent medieval chapters. Published in 2019 by La Découverte, this handsome volume continues the series' mission of making French history genuinely alive — and in this case, dramatically, unavoidably mortal.