End of January : Angoulême International Comics Festival , Late May : '' Musiques Métisses '' ( Mixed Music ) , Late August : Festival of Francophone Films , September : Circuit des Remparts ( Car Race ) , Late October : Piano en Valois , Late November : Gastronomades , Early November : The Grand Dance Festival Angoulême , along with paper and printing , has long been associated with animation , illustration and the graphic arts . The Cité internationale de la Bande Dessinée et de l'Image includes an exhibition space and cinema in a converted brewery down by the river . A new museum dedicated to the motion picture opened in 2007 at the newly restored '' chais '' on opposite side of the river at Saint Cybard . The architect was Jean-François Bodin . The Angoulême International Comics Festival takes place for a week every year in January and attracts nearly a quarter of a million international visitors
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival
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