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“Culturally, France is my alma mater”, he tells us. Pillar of French-speaking comics with its philosopher hero Baptiste the Tramp, André-Philippe Côté, 66, knows our country well. “I have been going there regularly for thirty years to see friends and visit museums.”
But it was from a distance that France first had a major influence on this autodidact, through its culture and its intellectual debates:
“French poets, writers, painters and caricaturists have been my teachers and my guides. Sempe and [Honoré] Daumier greatly inspired me.”
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