Cultural influence and the French-speaking world

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Who has never heard of Plantu? Or rather: who has never smiled at one of his cartoons, published daily in the newspaper Le Monde? Fewer people may realise, however, that the cartoonist was behind the project Cartooning for Peace, which brought cartoonists together at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York in 2006 for the first time to discuss the role of press illustration and caricatures as a means of expression and communication. Three years on, he has produced an initial assessment.