Un million d'éléphants

A single, oversized album from Futuropolis, Un million d'éléphants is a 2017 graphic novel that blends historical fiction with a surreal, ecological fable. The story follows a French soldier lost in the Laotian jungle at the end of the Indochina War, where his encounter with a mysterious elephant herd becomes a haunting meditation on memory, war, and the natural world. The book is notable for its lush, painted artwork by Clément Baloup, whose expressive style captures both the beauty and the trauma of its setting. It stands as a distinctive, standalone work that uses the intimate scale of a single volume to explore a vast, often-overlooked chapter of colonial history.