Complex sentence: Marie Pierre "Mapie" de Toulouse-Lautrec (1901--1972) was a French journalist and food writer, born Marie Pierre Adélaïde Lévêque de Vilmorin in Verrières-le-Buisson, scion of the Vilmorin seed company.
Split into simpler sentences: Marie Pierre "Mapie" de Toulouse-Lautrec (1901--1972) was a French journalist and food writer. Mapie de Toulouse-Lautrec was born Marie Pierre Adélaïde Lévêque de Vilmorin in Verrières-le-Buisson, scion of a family-owned seed company.