In a letter dated 19 March 2025 from the French Directorate-General for Education, Jul, a renowned comic artist who also is a press cartoonist and a member of Cartooning for Peace, was informed that the French Ministry of Education had cancelled the commission for the fairytale ‘La belle et la bête’ (Beauty and the Beast), which he was to illustrate in a print run of 800,000 copies as part of the ‘Un livre pour les vacances’ (A book for the holidays) campaign (aimed at giving pupils in fifth grade a literary classic before they start secondary school).
