Atlas Of Utopias

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Jean-Michel Billioud

Ophélie Chavaroche

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256 pages
23 x 29,7 cm ~ 9“ x 11“ /4
256 illustrations

 

“No map of the world is worth looking at if the land of utopia is not on it,” wrote Oscar Wilde. So why not make an atlas of it? In this book of all possibilities, we institute Gross National Happiness, we work two hours a day, we reinvent life, we kill death. By crossing the limits of the imagination, this book illustrated with old photos, plans and maps makes utopia a source of inspiration, a daydream of 256 pages.

Jean-Michel Billioud

Jean-Michel Billioud is a French writer and historian. He studied at the École de Provence in Marseille from 1971 to 1982. After completing degrees in journalism at the Institut Français de Presse and in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, he put his pen to work in the fields of press, broadcasting (radio and TV), and publishing. Since 2021, he has served as Head of Communications at the French Ministry of National Education and Youth. He has published around twenty works of fiction, picture books, and biographical novels, as well as several essays and over a hundred nonfiction titles for readers young and old — always with two main goals: to explain as clearly as possible and to rescue from oblivion what time seeks to erase. His favorite themes include sports, history, culture, and ecology.

Ophélie Chavaroche

She holds a PhD in Literature and Philosophy from Cornell University and teaches political humanities at Sciences Po Paris. Also an author (Atlas of Utopias, The Great Plains, 2019), she advises companies and leads workshops.

Agence Schweiger