France’s top comic strip artist has accused the government of the “worst censorship in publishing history” after it cancelled ...

The French government has been accused of censorship after it cancelled a book order for 800,000 copies of Beauty and the ...

France's education ministry has cancelled an order for "Beauty and the Beast" with modern illustrations, saying a ...

The French education ministry's decision to cancel a mass order for 800,000 copies of a comic book that gives a modern take ...

French artist Julien “Jul“ Berjeaut was commissioned to illustrate an modernized version of Beauty and the Beast, but the ...

Julien Berjeaut says the decision to pull the order was "as if Trump and his team were in charge." The French government has been accused of censorship after it cancelled a book order for 800,000 ...

Julien Berjeaut, whose pen name is Jul, had been asked to illustrate an 18th-century version of the famous fairy tale for a government scheme to give 800,000 primary school graduates a revamped ...

But illustrator Julien Berjeaut – known as Jul – said the ministry's objections were spurious, and that he feared the book was pulled because the characters he portrayed in it were dark-skinned.

Paris (AFP) – France's education ministry has cancelled an order for "Beauty and the Beast" with modern illustrations, saying a cartoonist's 21st-century version including a police sniffer dog ...

Julien Berjeaut says the decision to pull the order was "as if Trump and his team were in charge." [Getty Images] ...

Ministry says 21st-century version with sniffer dog and smartphones inappropriate Paris: France’s education ministry has cancelled an order for “Beauty and the Beast” with modern ...