Antonin Baudry

Antonin Baudry born May 6 1975 also known by the writing pseudonym Abel Lanzac is a French diplomat specializing in cultural affairs comic book author screenwriter and film director After finishing his studies at lycée LouisleGrand Antonin Baudry began at the École polytechnique in 1994 graduating as an engineer of bridges water and forest He graduated second in literature from École normale supérieure in Paris in 1998 and obtained a Diplôme détudes approfondies DEA en cinematography 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 DC United States 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 dOrsay 20102011 in collaboration with Christophe Blain After the second comic book in this series won the prix du meilleur album at the festival dAngoulême 2013 he revealed his true identity In 2014 he founded Albertine the only Frenchlanguage bookstore in New York Named for the mysterious beloved in Marcel Prousts novel In Search of Lost Time the bookstore shares the Payne Whitney House with the Cultural Services arm of the French embassy On January 28 2015 Baudry was appointed as Ambassador for French Culture at the Institut français He resigned after a few months to work on personal projects 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 Source Article Antonin Baudry from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30