12 Facts About Arthur Dreyfus

Arthur Dreyfus became known in 2009, the year he received the French Young Writer Prize for his short story Il Deserte.

Arthur Dreyfus is of Jewish descent and his grandfather was deported to a concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Arthur Dreyfus studied literature at Lycee Henri-IV, received a diploma from CELSA Paris and obtained master's degrees in marketing and communication from Sciences Po in 2012.

Arthur Dreyfus appeared in commercials; performed magic shows for brands, aftershows and fashion shows; acted in the television show Famille d'accueil, and created a magic act in 2006 with the actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus at the Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens.

In March 2013, Arthur Dreyfus set up a naked jogging event in front of the French senate in Paris to protest what he described as "ambient puritanism" and "the legal crusade against children's literature".

Arthur Dreyfus specializes in major interviews with celebrities such as Carla Bruni, Catherine Deneuve, Neymar, Olivier Saillard, Jean-Paul Goude, Ines de la Fressange, Jane Fonda, Anna Karina and Xavier Veilhan.

Arthur Dreyfus writes opera programs, essays, art books and for luxury fashion brands such as Lancel, Mauboussin and Fendi.

Arthur Dreyfus used an iPhone to take the photos and Ilfochrome, a rare photographic process, to produce the prints.

Arthur Dreyfus contributed photographs and a series of poems to the exhibit.

Arthur Dreyfus was one of the artists invited by Gerard Collomb to support Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Lyon in February 2017.

Arthur Dreyfus later published a pro-Europe and anti-extremist letter addressing supporters of Marine Le Pen in May 2017.

In February 2019, after the Jewish cemetery in Quatzenheim, Alsace was desecrated with swastikas, Arthur Dreyfus published a poem against antisemitism on Facebook which was shared 29,000 times and read by children during a ceremony at the town.