Jouy’s canvas is summed up in its name even if, paradoxically, man is not always identified with his industry, nor the village at the cradle of his art. Present from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, it left an imprint still visible today, buildings that each have a story to tell; we will take some of them, the most emblematic like the bridge of Austerlitz; these are these "pebbles" which will serve to perpetuate the transmission of the story of the "legendary founder" (Henri Clouzot).
In 2022, more than two hundred and fifty years after the printing of the 1st canvas in Jouy-en-Josas, the novelists of the city’s first contest - open to all - chose to interpret, each in their own way, this legendary adventure embodied in a single name: Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf.
Its history joins that of prohibition edicts/freedom of manufacture & edicts of prohibition/authorization of the Protestant religion in France.