Butterfly Musem travel guide

He collects them, steeps them in formaldehyde and displays them. Come and admire Dany's stars.

In Saint Tropez, every self-respecting tourist dutifully strolls along the port to observe the boats, which get more imposing by the year, while secretly on the lookout for the "celebrities" who might appear at any moment, just in time to become immortalized on a mobile phone. It is a native of Saint Tropez who holds the absolute record with regard to "star-hunting". Dany Lartigue, painter and son of photographer Jacques Henry Lartigue, has pinned down over 25,000 of them! His extraordinary collection includes a number of extremely rare specimens, and, according to him, provides "an invitation to universal admiration". Visitors from all over the world come to admire it. The town council of Saint Tropez has purchased the house where these ephemeral beauties are on display, immortalised against landscape paintings which recall their natural milieu, so much so that it is often quite difficult to spot them, given their highly developed camouflage techniques. I almost forgot: Dany Lartigue's stars do not live in mansions. For they are butterflies, simply beautiful butterflies, and they don't only go out by night."I have always been opposed to the trading of animals and insects. It contributes to their destruction. 70 of the 220 French species are almost extinct. To know that, you have to study them. Better knowledge means better protection. That's my motto." This is what is known as a passion for butterflies.

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