He was therefore a member of an aristocratic family (descendants of the Counts of Toulouse and Lautrec and the Viscounts of Montfa, a village and commune of the Tarn department of southern France).
== Življenjepis ===== Zgodnje življenje ===Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa se je rodil v dvorcu du Bosc v Albiju, departma Tarn v srednjih Pirenejih v Franciji, kot prvorojeni otrok grofa Alphonsa de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa in Adele Tapié de Celeyran, ki sta bila bratranec in sestrična.