Pierre Dubois (born 19 July 1945), is a French specialist in enchantement . He is an author, Franco-Belgian comics (bande dessinée) scriptwriter, storyteller and lecturer at the origin of renewed interest in fairies and little people in France. He became fascinated at a young age with fairy tales and Fairytale fantasy, becoming an illustrator after a short study of Fine Arts. He has brought together local legends and recreated them in radio and television shows for over thirty years. He is the inventor of elficology (elficologie) as a name for the study of the "little people" (fairies and other similar beings), although it was originally just a joke on his part. His first comic book was published in 1986. Since then he has produced one each year and also made regular appearances on television and at conferences, always in the area of fairy tales, dreams and legends related to the fairies. Because of his encyclopedias of fairies, imps, and elves, results of twenty years of research and published in the 1990s, that Pierre Dubois won his international recognition as a French specialist in everything involving magic. These encyclopedias sold thousands of copies at a time when they were the very first works of their kind in France. Biography Childhood Pierre Dubois was born in Charleville in the Ardennes, then located in North Zone under the military administration of Belgium and the North. He remained "Belgian" for two years until the formation of the French Fourth Republic. He spent part of his childhood near the Ardennes forest, where many local legends circulate; this is where he began to believe in the "spirit of place". His parents moved to the Nord, in Valenciennes, which interrupted this and gave him a "contemplative and lonely" childhood. He described this "house of the North" with a scullery beside the garden which served as a laundry room, where he imagined stories, seeking the forest that was missing. Only reading, pictures and music could calm him down. During his childhood, he sometimes returned to spend his vacation in Monthermé. His father is an industrial designer who was very serious and often absent. He forbade reading and comic books. From when Pierre learned to read, it was to try to find the atmosphere of fantasy adventure films. Indeed, in the 1950s, his mother quietly took him to the movies on Thursdays to see Technicolor films such as Robin