Pierre Noël 

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4 albums/55 artworks – Pierre Noël (1903 – 1981) was born into a world of brass buttons and rigid honor. His paternal grandfather had been a naval officer; his maternal grandfather, a cavalry general. The family—monarchist, devoutly Catholic, and steeped in tradition—valued art but kept it on a short leash. Young Pierre attended strict colleges in Soissons, Fontainebleau, Arcachon, and Orléans, finishing with philosophy. From adolescence he drew obsessively; at twenty he fled to Paris, studying under René Lelong and Louis‑François Biloul. In 1927 he married the sculptor Marthe Doumerc, descendant of a banking dynasty once linked to Balzac’s own father. They settled near Place Denfert‑Rochereau, each with a sunlit studio. Their daughter Marie‑José arrived in 1934. The household lived…

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