DOROTHÉE DE MONFREID lives and works in Paris. She is an author of children’s books and graphic novels.
After studying at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, she worked for a time as a graphic designer in publishing before dedicating herself to writing and drawing. She has published numerous children’s books with l’école des loisirs, developing a style that blends picture books and graphic novels. Her work combines rigor and whimsy, precision and a sense of the absurd.

From 2004 to 2006, she participated in the creation of Capsule Cosmique magazine, published by Milan, which became a training ground where many graphic novelists honed their skills. This experience within the collective remained a defining moment for her.

Starting in 2012, she created the series Les Toutous (The Doggies) for l’école des loisirs publishing house, exploring group relationships through the adventures of a pack of dogs. The most famous installment, Les toutous à Paris (The Doggies in Paris), has been encouraging families to visit the city by following the characters’ journeys since 2019. The series now comprises 16 titles and is currently being adapted into an animated series.

Since 2017, Dorothée de Monfreid has also published graphic novels for adults: Ada & Rosie, mauvais esprit de famille (Ada & Rosie, Bad Family Spirit) (Casterman, 2019), Les choses de l’amour (The Things of Love) (Misma, 2020), and others.
In early 2020, she chaired the very first Youth Grand Jury at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.

In 2022, she contributed to the collective work Carnets de campagne (Campaign Diaries), an immersive reportage project led by Mathieu Sapin in which each of the six co-authors followed one of the presidential candidates.

A remarkable publishing achievement, the graphic novel will be released two weeks after the election (Dargaud + Seuil, 2022).

Her latest graphic novel, Fantaisie Lyrique (Dargaud-Charivari, 2025), recounts the creation of L’Enfant et les sortilèges by Colette (libretto) and Ravel (music), an atypical opera she loved listening to as a child. In parallel, she describes her immersion behind the scenes at the Paris Opera during the preparations for a new run of performances of the work. An ode to music and live performance, this book received the 2026 France Musique-Claude Samuel Jury’s Choice Book Award. Alongside her artistic practice, Dorothée de Monfreid is committed to copyright advocacy within ADAGP, where she was elected to the board of directors in October 2024.

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