Léonard Pouy

Léonard Pouy is Content and Transmission Manager at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts. Having studied the looters and plunderers of the Thirty Years’ War for his doctoral thesis in art history (at Paris-Sorbonne and the University of Geneva), he then turned his attention to the former “Pirate Coast,” now the western shore of the Arabo-Persian Gulf, as curator of the exhibition Pearl Merchants, a Rediscovered Saga Between the Gulf & France at the Dawn of the 20th century (2019). A specialist in the history of jewelry, his latest book is Paris, City of Pearls (2024). David B. is a comic book artist and writer. After training in applied arts at the Duperré school, he published his first album, Le Timbre maudit (Bayard), in 1986. Along with J.-C. Menu, Stanislas, Mattt Konture, Killoffer, and Lewis Trondheim he is one of the founding members of L’Association, a famous French comic book publisher. It has released a number of his works, including L’Ascension du Haut Mal (Epileptic), his greatest success to date, from 1996 to 2004. Considered one of the masterpieces of modern comics, this album won many international awards, as well as the Scenario Prize at the Angoulême Festival in 2000. Invited by the High Jewelry Maison Van Cleef & Arpels to share his vision of Robert Louis Stevenson’s story, David B. has produced a series of colored illustrations.