Jean de Montreuil
Jean de Montreuil( 1354, Monthureux- le- Sec – 29 May 1418, Paris) was a French scholar of the late 14th and early 15th century and a friend of Laurent de Premierfait.
Laurent de Wilde
Laurent de Wilde( born in Washington, D.C. in 1960) is a French jazz pianist, composer and writer.
Etan Boritzer
Etan Boritzer( born 1950) is an American writer of children ’s literature who is best known for his book" What is God?" first published in 1989.
His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
What is Love?,
What is Death?,
What is Beautiful?,
What is Funny?,
What is Right?,
What is Peace?,
What is Money?,
What is Dreaming?,
What is a Friend?,
What is True?,
What is a Family?,
What is a Feeling?"
The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
Boritzer was first published in 1963 at the age of 13 when he wrote an essay in his English class at Wade Junior High School in the Bronx, New York on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."
Laurent de Brunhoff
Laurent de Brunhoff (born August 30, 1925) is a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar
the Elephant series of children's books, created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.
Brunhoff was born in Paris.
The children's classic, "Babar", began as a bedtime story that Cécile 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 éléphantThe Story of Babar"), 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 Académie de la Grande Chaumière 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’ArthurBabar’s Cousin, That Rascal Arthur"), 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 divorced in 1990.
In 1985 de Brunhoff moved to the United States, living in Middletown, Connecticut with writer and Wesleyan University professor Phyllis Rose.
They married in 1990 and currently live in New York and Key West, Florida.
De Brunhoff, who holds both French and American citizenship, was made an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.
There have been major exhibitions of his work and his father's work in 1981 at the Centre Culturel du Marais in Paris, in 1983-84 in the United States (Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, among others), in 1987 in Japan, and in 1989-90 at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, among others.
In 2008 the Morgan Library and Museum in New York mounted a major exhibition of original drawings and manuscripts by Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff, for which a catalogue was published, "Drawing Babar:
Early Drafts and Watercolors" by Christine Nelson, including an essay about Babar by Adam Gopnik, which was also published in "The New Yorker".
It celebrated the gift to the Morgan by Laurent de Brunhoff and his brothers, Mathieu and Thierry, of the manuscript of Jean de Brunhoff's first book, "Histoire de BabarThe Story of Babar", 1931) and by Laurent of the manuscript of his first book, "
Babar et ce coquin d'ArthurBabar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur", 1946).
There have been smaller shows at many museums throughout America, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Dixon Gallery in Memphis, the Speed Museum in Atlanta, and the Davison Center of Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
A show is scheduled for 2011-2012 at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
In addition, de Brunhoff has exhibited frequently at the Mary Ryan Gallery in New York, which represents his work and his father's.
The work of Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff has also been the subject of books by Anne Hildebrand, "Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff: The Legacy of Babar"
(New York: Twayne, 1991)
and by Nicholas Fox Weber, "The Art of Babar"
(New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989).
David Laurent de Lara
David Laurent de Lara( c.1806, Amsterdam- 1876) was a London- based, Dutch- born limner of Spanish descent.
He has been described as a pioneer who helped illumination to become recognised as an artform in its own right at a time when very few had ready access to the original illuminated manuscripts or to fine quality reproductions.
His illuminated Hebrew calendar and almanac, and a portrait of Hananel De Castro, 1840- 1 president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, led to his being greatly admired among London's Jewish community.
He exhibited a custom- designed illuminated chess table for the Queen and Prince Albert at The Great Exhibition of 1851.
Laurent de Lara published" Elementary instruction in the Art of Illumination, and Missal Painting on Vellum" in 1850, which went to several editions.
From the second expanded edition( 1857), he described himself on the title page as illuminating artist to Queen Victoria, though he may simply have supplied teaching materials to the Royal children, if not actually taught them illumination which they were studying from at least 1855.
The book consisted of 48 pages, with six illustrations, four coloured, and was published by the firm of Ackermann, who specialised in such instructive books and also sold the papers, designs and pigments called for in order to follow the instructions within.
In the book, Laurent de Lara described Henry Noel Humphreys's" Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages" as too advanced for a beginner, and did not mention Humphreys' 1856 book" The Art of Illumination and Missal Painting", which Alice H. R. H. Beckwith points out was the first manual for illuminators, although aimed at professionals rather than to the amateurs targeted by Laurent de Lara.
Beckwith has argued that while Laurent de Lara was a good self- promoter, he was not skilled at his art, and suggests that it was him who J. Willis Brooks called an" unprincipled adventurer" who exploited impoverished female illuminators.
In 1857 Laurent de Lara had established the Illuminating Art Society.
Its first exhibition in 1859, was reviewed by" The Art Journal", and" The Athenaeum", though any subsequent shows appear to not have been reviewed.
Illumination was promoted as an acceptable form of employment for women, enabling highly educated ladies to occupy themselves in an appropriately non-menial way by creating illuminated material for sale.
The Illuminating Art Union was supported by an annual subscription of £ 1/1s from its patronesses, who received an original illumination on vellum made by" less affluent members" as a premium.
In Brooks's words, this exploited women" to place their excellent taste and skill, for worse than starvation prices, at the disposal of some unprincipled adventurer, ignorant himself of the very rudiments of the art he professes to teach."
By 1860, the" Art Journal" had changed its mind, and argued that it was not possible for a woman to support herself through illumination.
Beckwith notes that by the 1860s, Laurent de Lara's manual had competition in the form of other, more successfully developed publications by Winsor& Newton, George Rowney& Company, and J. Barnard and Son; and says he failed to grasp the idea that illumination was about an unity between text and ornament.
Instead, Laurent de Lara suggested that illumination was about the carefully drawn mechanical repetition of fussy detail.
According to his granddaughter, the pianist and composer Adelina de Lara's autobiography, David Laurent de Lara was the son of a Spanish count called Laurent de Lara.
David married a London- born Polish Jewish woman, Sarah Cracour.
Jean de Brunhoff
Jean de Brunhoff (9 December 1899 – 16 October 1937) was a French writer and illustrator remembered best for creating the Babar series of children's books concerning a fictional elephant, the first of which was published during 1931.
Theodred II (Bishop of Elmham)
Theodred II was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
The date of Theodred's consecration unknown, but the date of his death was sometime between 995 and 997.
Gérard Banide
Gérard Banide( born July 12, 1936) is a French former football coach.
He is the father of Laurent Banide.
Thierry de Brunhoff
Thierry de Brunhoff( born 9 November 1934) is a French pianist and Benedictine monk.
Cécile de Brunhoff
Cécile de Brunhoff( née Sabouraud)
( October 16, 1903 – April 7, 2003) was a French storyteller and the creator of the original Babar story.
She was also a classically trained pianist.
The Babar books began as a bedtime story de Brunhoff invented for her children, Mathieu and Laurent, when they were four and five years old, respectively.
She was trying to comfort Mathieu, who was sick.
The boys liked the story of the little elephant who left the jungle for a city resembling Paris so much that they took it to their father Jean de Brunhoff, a painter, and asked him to illustrate it.
He turned it into a picture book, with text, which was published by a family- run publishing house," Le jardin des modes".
Originally, it was planned that the book's title page would describe the story as" told by Jean and Cécile de Brunhoff."
However, she had her name removed; according to her son Mathieu this was due to modesty, and her opinion that her contribution was minor.
Due to the role she played in the genesis of the Babar story, many sources continue to refer to her as the creator of the Babar story.
Her husband Jean went on to write and illustrate six more Babar children's books which made the series popular worldwide.
Her son Laurent de Brunhoff has carried on the family tradition of writing and illustrating Babar books.

Question: When did Laurent De Brunhoff's father die?
Answer: 16 October 1937