François de Hérain
1877
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1962
French painter, sculptor and engraver (1877-1962)
François de Hérain was a French painter, sculptor and engraver who had initially worked as a doctor. He did many paintings of scenes in French Algeria and Morocco and authored several art books. He won the Prix Charles Blanc from the Académie française for Peintres et sculpteurs écrivains d’art in 1961. His wife, Eugénie Hardon, later married Marshal Philippe Pétain.