Question: What key details about laurent de brunhoff can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: laurent de brunhoff -lrb- born august 30 , 1925 , paris , france -rrb- is an author and illustrator , known primarily for continuing the babar the elephant series of children 's books , created by his father , jean de brunhoff . the children 's classic , babar , began as a bedtime story that cecile de brunhoff told her young sons , laurent and mathieu , in 1930 , when they were five and four years old , respectively . they loved the story about the little elephant so much that they asked their father , who was an artist , to draw pictures for them of the elephant world their mother had described . he did and eventually created a book , '' histoire de babar : le petit elephant '' -lrb- '' the story of babar '' -rrb- , which was published by jardin des modes , a family-run publishing house . jean de brunhoff created six more babar books and had one more son , thierry , but died of tuberculosis at age 37 in 1937 . after the war , laurent , who inherited his father 's artistic gift , trained at the academie de la grande chaumiere under the painter othon friesz and began living as an artist in montparnasse . but , wishing to maintain his tie to his father and the imaginative world of his childhood , he turned back to the character his father had drawn and taught himself to draw in his father 's style . what christine nelson calls their '' intergenerational artistic partnership '' had begun even earlier , when laurent was a teenager , and was asked to do the color for several pages which his father had left in black and white . his own first babar book , '' babar et ce coquin d'arthur '' -lrb- '' babar 's cousin , that rascal arthur '' -rrb- , was published in 1946 when laurent was 21 . he went on to publish over forty-five more babar books , as well as creating children 's books with characters of his own invention , bonhomme and serafina , among others . he was married to marie-claude bloch in 1951 and together they had two children , anne , born 1952 , and antoine , born 1954 . they separated in 1985 and...
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- relatives is jean de brunhoff -lrb- '' mother '' -rrb- de brunhoff -lrb- '' father '' -rrb- cecile- caption is laurent de brunhoff at the 2008 texas book festival- notableworks is babar the elephant- genre is children 's literature- spouse is phyllis rose- education is academie de la grande chaumiere- children is anne de brunhoff , antoine de brunhoff- birth date is 30 august 1925- name is laurent de brunhoff- citizenship is american- nationality is french- image is laurent de brunhoff 2008.jpg- birth place is paris , france- occupation is artist