Guided tours of the exhibition "Alan’s War"

Name: Visitas guiadas a la exposición "La guerra de Alan"
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Mémorial de l'internement et de la déportation

The Memorial of Internment and Deportation organizes exceptionally guided tours of its summer exhibition "The Alan War" by Emmanuel Guibert,

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Herramientas de registro

03 44 96 37 07

Thierry Charpentier/Emmanuel Guibert

The Memorial offers guided tours of the exhibition "Alan’s War" composed of a unique set of original plates from Alan’s comic book La Guerre d'Alan by Emmanuel Guibert and a selection of preparatory drawings as well as the author’s personal objects used to create this work.

In June 1994, Emmanuel Guibert, Grand Prix du Festival de bande dessinée d'Angoulême in 2020, made a decisive encounter. On vacation on the island of Ré, he asks for directions from a passerby, Alan Ingram Cope, American retiree, World War II veteran living on the island. A friendship and a complicity are born immediately between them and will last until the disappearance of the former soldier in August 1999. Emmanuel Guibert had no idea that he would devote years of his life to this extraordinary and humble man, who, like many young Americans of his time, was enlisted in the army and crossed Europe to wage war.
Emmanuel Guibert has staged the episodes of Alan Cope’s life during the Second World War in this graphic novel, which will be the subject of 3 volumes published from 2000 to 2008 by L'Association, and a full edition in 2009, followed, again by the same publisher, by L'Enfance d'Alan in 2012 and Martha and Alan in 2017.

About the location

Mémorial de l'internement et de la déportation

2 bis, avenue des Martyrs de la Liberté 60200 Compiègne

Oise
Hauts-de-France

The Internment and Deportation Memorial is a former military barracks that served as a transit camp for political opponents, resistance fighters, Jews and civilians during the Second World War. With the help of a scenographic itinerary installed inside the two still existing buildings and a garden of memory, it presents the history of the camp and retraces the deportation route of the detainees set up by Germany towards the Nazi camps.