Presentation of the ‘Mise à sac’ comic strip

A cultural season supported by L'Autre Scène, Le Café de l'Humanisme and Librairie Pleine Page in Sélestat.

With Hélène Poizat, Pierre Freyburger and Fanny Delqué.

17 April 2018: Marc Bellamy, director of the Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes in Mulhouse, died when he fell from a ladder while trying to change a light bulb in the museum. A few days earlier, he had lodged a complaint about the theft of two Gallé vases, which had disappeared from the museum's storerooms and reappeared at Sotheby's in Paris. Jean-Frédéric Kintzler, the museum's conservation officer, was arrested a few weeks later. He admitted stealing the vases and around a hundred Hermès squares, also kept in the reserves.

It soon became clear that many more items had been stolen, and that the museum, a reminder of the city's textile past, had literally been plundered over time. With the indifference or blindness of those who should have been looking after these collections.

Based on this true story, ‘Mise à sac’ plunges into this web of lies in an attempt to untangle it by going back to the origins of the affair, to the beginnings of the main protagonists in the museum and by following the interrogations of Élise, a journalist with the local daily newspaper, who is following the case.
Set against a backdrop of industrial heritage and the art market, ‘Mise à sac’ combines investigation, social criticism and psychological exploration, in an attempt to understand a mystery that has yet to be solved.

The event will end with the opening of the refreshment bar, so that everyone can discuss the comics with the authors.

Open to all, registration at the bookshop or by email.