madeleine gras (1891 - 1958)
Madeleine Gras, full name Louise Augustine Madeleine Gras, was a French bookbinder and designer.
Madeleine Gras studied at the Central Union of Decorative Arts and also apprenticed with Henri Nulhac. She designed Art Deco bindings and first appeared in 1922 at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts.
Pierre Falké, full name Pierre André Michel Falké, was a French painter and printmaker, illustrator and cartoonist.
Pierre Falké was a well-known humorist in the French press in the first half of the 20th century, collaborating with popular humor and satirical magazines. He drew comic strips and caricatures. In painting, Falké specialized mainly in marine views. He also illustrated more than sixty books and practiced wood engraving.
Pierre Mac Orlan, real name Pierre Dumarchey, is a French writer, poet, screenwriter, playwright, artist and journalist.
Pierre Dumarchey spent his youth leading a bohemian lifestyle, but by the age of 20 he had already published several collections of short stories with his own illustrations. He socialized with many contemporary writers and artists, played the accordion, and many of his songs were quite popular in cabarets. In World War
I in 1916, Pierre Dumarchey was wounded, after which he worked as a war correspondent. In the late 1920s, he became an influential critic of film and photography. And later became a famous writer under the pseudonym Pierre Mac-Orlan. Based on his most famous novel Quai des Brumes ("Port of Shadows"), French director Marcel Carné made a movie of the same name in 1938.
In addition to his numerous novels, Mac-Orlan published under various pseudonyms in erotic magazines. Pierre Mac-Orlan was a very prolific writer: in 1969-1971, a collection of his works in 24 volumes was published, which, however, did not include his many erotic works.
