He was born in Toulouse, France. He began his career studying law at the University of Toulouse, but too followed classes in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, switching full time to art after he became bored with law. In late 1904 he moved to London.
In London, the 22-year old Frenchman was picked up by J.M. Dent and given a commission to illustrate the collected works of the Brontë sisters. He then began an association with the Leicester Gallery and Hodder & Stoughton; the gallery who would publish the books while the gallery would sell the paintings. Books produced under this arrangement include Stories from The Arabian Nights (1907, an edition of Shakespeare's The Tempest (1908), The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales (1910), Stories from Hans Christian Andersen (1911), The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1912).
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