François Place

After a ferry literary, he makes visual communication studies at the Ecole Estienne. (1974-1977.) He worked for several years as a freelance illustrator for studios of graphics and advertising and professional journals. His first children's book illustrations appear in the Rose Library at Hachette. In 1985, he met Pierre Marchand, publisher Gallimard Jeunesse, who notices his d'adolescent drawings. It shows a series of documentary books on the theme of travel and discover the world, and made ​​his first steps in writing. It helps other nonfiction books, and begins to illustrate novels, notably those of Michael Morpurgo.

In 1992, appears to Casterman Editions The last giants, then, between 1996 and 2000, the three volumes of the Atlas of d'Orbæ geographers, an imaginary atlas built on the principle of the alphabet. This atlas was extended in 2010 by The d'Orbæ secret. He received from the Grand Prix of the Fair of Bologna for the Atlas geographers of Orbae and a Witches Prix Special to reward his work award from youth specialist bookshops and Library Association of France.

In 2008, François contributes to Place du Louvre youth website, alongside the authors Benedict and Emmanuelle de Saint Chamas.

In 2010 his first novel Youth Flying Customs (Gallimard Jeunesse) is distinguished by the magazine read. In 2012, The Secret d'Orbæ receives the prize fiction International Fair Youth Book of Bologna (Italy).

The originals of François Place were regularly exposed, especially with the youth of Montreuil Book Promotion Centre and the Art Gallery page.