Press release

Pierre Bettencourt was a writer, a poet, a publisher, a butterfly hunter, and a tireless traveller (to Africa, Oceania, the Far East, the Indies, the United States, Mexico, and beyond). Born in 1917 in Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan, he lived between Normandy, Paris, and Burgundy, where he settled in 1963 with his wife, the writer Monique Apple, and died in 2006. He devised his literary work in Normandy (writing, typography, printing, publishing) and his artistic work in Burgundy (several hundred high reliefs)