Les aventures de Sylvain et Sylvette de Cuvillier (1941-1956) : entre mythe et histoire, un art de la simplicité

Les aventures de Sylvain et Sylvette, a series created by Maurice Cuvillier (1897-1957) in 1941, has now been running for more than eighty years. This comic strip series first appeared in the press and was later published in a long series of picturebooks, for a total of 295 titles and more than twenty million copies sold. It deserves to be considered in the history of children’s literature for these reasons. But there is an additional reason: the series is less simple than it appears. It depi...