Paris Sketchbook Box Set

Carl Norac, born in Belgium, is the son of a writer and an actress. As a poet and playwright, his work was honored in 2009 with the Grand Prize from the Society of Men of Letters in Paris and the Charles-Plisnier Prize in Belgium. He has published over 40 titles to date and has been translated into 18 languages.

Fabrice Moireau, born in 1962, graduated from the National School of Applied Arts and Crafts. From his numerous travels, he brings back sketchbooks that serve as cultural and ethnographic testimonies. Passionate about architecture, gardens, and plants in general, his ambition is to convey, through watercolors, the subtlety of the play of light and the atmosphere of a street or landscape.

Jean-Pierre Le Dantec is a professor at the National School of Architecture in Paris-La-Villette, where he heads the research team “Architecture, Environments, Landscapes.” As a writer, he has published numerous works dedicated to the art of gardens, including “Le Sauvage et le Régulier. Art des jardins et paysagisme en France au vingtième siècle” (Le Moniteur, 2002), “Splendeur des jardins de Paris” (Flammarion, 1991), “Le Roman des jardins de France” (Plon, 1987 and Bartillat, 2001), and “Enfin l’architecture” (Autrement, 1984). Jean-Pierre Le Dantec has also authored several radio and television programs dedicated to various aspects of garden and landscape creation.

Yves Simon is a writer, composer, and performer. He wrote his first novel at the age of twenty-four, which was promptly published by Grasset. In 1987, he received the Booksellers’ Prize with “Le Voyageur Magnifique,” and in 1991, the Médicis Prize with “La Dérive des Sentiments.” His work as an author-composer was also recognized with the Sacem Poetry Prize in 1995 and the Grand Prize of the French Academy in 1997. A world traveler, Yves Simon has embarked on several world tours, but it is in France, and particularly in Paris, that he finds the themes of his inspiration.