Émile Nestor no relation Beaux-Arts de Paris
Biography
Early years
Émile Nestor Joseph Carlier was born in Cambrai on 3 January 1849, in the Rue de la Prison, the current location of the town hall.  He attended the Municipal School, then at 15 joined the studio of the ornamental sculptor Lecaron in Cambrai.  
He began work carving the stones of the Cambrai cathedral.  At one time he fell from a scaffold and was saved only by his bag's strap catching on a pole.
He went to Paris, visiting the Universal Exhibition of 1867, which confirmed his vocation as an artist. 
Receiving no financial support from his parents, he had to support himself through minor jobs, and entered the house of a furniture manufacturer of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. 
Then he returned to Cambrai to follow a course of academic study in the workshop of René Fache, where he was a dedicated and studious pupil. His teacher convinced Carlier's parents to let him go to Paris to enter the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. 
He received a scholarship from the city of Cambrai in 1869, and he joined the workshop of Pierre-Jules Cavelier.
His teacher gave him a rigorously academic education.  The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 interrupted his studies. Exempt from military service, he went to his parents' home, and then joined the volunteers of Montrouge. 
He had his baptism of fire at the advanced posts of Bagneux and at Buzenval in Rueil-Malmaison, where he saw the Orientalist painter Henri Regnault fall.
He himself received three shots and narrowly avoided the loss of his right arm. He saw the horrors of the Commune, and left in search of new horizons. 
With a pistol and fifteen francs, he left for Spain, which he explored on foot for six months. On the way he worked for road masons. 
Back in Paris he joined the workshop of François Jouffroy, then entered the Académie Julian in the workshop of Henri Chapu where he found his friend from Valenciennes, Léon Fagel.
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