Christian Combaz

His family moved to Paris in 1968 where he attended college at the fashionable lycée Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, a Jesuit-run school in the Trocadero district.

His novels show a typical French narrative touch that the critics called "balzacian", referring to his obsession with social recognition.

While attending the Sciences-Po in Paris in 1977, he registered a few blocks away at the Beaux-Arts school in sculpture and in the studio run by Claude Viseux [fr].

[3] Invited to speak in the praised radio show of Alain Finkielkraut, he said that he preferred to devote his art to "those we may call simple but are, finally, as complex as everyone".

A few months before September 11, he wrote a futuristic novel, Une heure avant l'éternité,[5] the paperback cover of which prophetically showed the twin towers hacked by a bayonet, picture shot from a New Jersey war monument facing Manhattan.

Settling in Budapest for a few months, Combaz wrote Franz (1994) a novel that takes place in the heart the Danubian city, and De l'Est de la Peste et du reste,[9] a plea for a "cultural European parliament", that would be able to defend the core values of European civilization against "violence made commonplace, american taste applied to everything and everyone".

Combaz stresses that Hungary endured over 100 years of Islamic rule before the industrial revolution (Ottoman invasion, end of the 17th century), and says that the rest of Europe should bear this in mind.

After two further years (2009-2011) spent at the head of another cultural delegation in Zaragoza (Spain) he got back to Le Figaro[13] and published various essays including in 2015 a literary document with the help of a world-famous Belgian endocrinologist Pr Balthazart, Les Âmes douces.