Pauvres mais fiers #[nn]

A wonderfully warm scene graces this Tronchet album cover: a ramshackle trailer glows with golden light and Christmas decorations in the cold blue night, while a ragtag group of characters crowds cheerfully inside and around it — poor perhaps, but radiating good cheer. Published by Albin Michel in 2000, Pauvres mais fiers ("Poor but Proud") captures that irresistible spirit of making the best of humble circumstances with humor and heart. Tronchet's expressive, slightly cartoonish style gives the wintry scene a cozy, lived-in charm that's hard to resist.