Adrien Goetz, a member of the Institut de France, teaches art history at the Sorbonne. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and winner of the competitive Agrégation exam in history, Goetz has also written many best-selling novels about the world of art and museums. He is the editor-in-chief of the Louvre's scholarly review, Grande Galerie. In 2017 he was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Ambroise Tezenas is the author of several books, including the monograph Beijing : Theater of the People, which won the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2006 and brought him international recognition. Regularly exhibited and awarded, his work is part of numerous public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris.