Les grands témoins en BD #4

The fourth volume of Bayard Jeunesse's Les Grands Témoins en BD brings together the stories of 14 remarkable women ("14 femmes d'exception"), presented here in comics form for younger readers. The cover sets a quietly powerful tone: a dark-haired young girl sits at a writing desk, pen in hand over an open journal, an ink bottle and pencils arranged beside her — while in the background, uniformed soldiers patrol the colorful streets of a European town. It's an affecting image of courage and inner life persisting against a threatening world, and the series continues to prove that history's most compelling witnesses deserve to be heard in every medium.