Product Code Database
Antonin Baudry (; born 6 May 1975), Antonin Baudry 3 February 2013. also known by the writing pseudonym Abel Lanzac, is a French diplomat specializing in cultural affairs, comic book author, screenwriter, and film director.
In April 2004, he became a conseiller of Minister Dominique de Villepin at the Ministry of the Interior.
From 2010 to 2014, he was the cultural counsellor at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., United States FrenchMorning.com and counsellor for cooperation and cultural action at the French Embassy in Madrid, Spain.
Under the pseudonym Abel Lanzac, he used his diplomatic experience to help him write the comic book Quai d'Orsay (2010-2011), in collaboration with Christophe Blain. After the second comic book in this series won the at the festival d'Angoulême 2013, he revealed his true identity.
In 2014, he founded Albertine Books, the only French-language bookstore in New York. Named for the mysterious beloved in Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time, the bookstore shares the Payne Whitney House with the Cultural Services arm of the French embassy.
On 28 January 2015 Baudry was appointed as Ambassador for French Culture at the Institut français. Le Monde, 4 octobre 2014 He resigned after a few months to work on personal projects. Denis Pietton, futur Président de l'Institut français, 10 juin 2015
He was president of the jury for the 43rd festival international de la bande dessinée in January 2016.
In 2019, he directed his first film, Le Chant du loup, a submarine thriller.
His two-part biopic of Charles de Gaulle filmed in 2023 and 2024.
|
|
