Thomas Clerc’s Fiction Celebrates Montmartre’s ‘Croûtes’ in sun/sun Edition

The fifteenth volume in sun/sun’s ‘Fléchette’ collection features writer Thomas Clerc, who crafted a fictional story inspired by a 1927 autochrome of the Foire aux croûtes in Montmartre. The image, part of the Albert-Kahn museum’s ‘Archives de la planète’ (1909–1931), shows a baby in a pram on Boulevard de Clichy. Clerc’s narrative follows an amateur painter and muses on the enduring charm of ‘croûtes’—artworks existing outside institutions, sometimes in ‘confusing bad taste.’ The book was published in May 2026 and reviewed in Beaux Arts Magazine n°503. The ‘Fléchette’ series, launched four years ago, invites contemporary authors to write from a single photograph in the Albert-Kahn collection, with covers punched with holes matching the series count—a nod to Albert Kahn’s dart-throwing method for choosing destinations.