Delivery service: Colissimo Born in Paris on November 18, 1881, Paul BAUDIER, awakened by the charm of the gâtinais of his childhood, was very early attracted by the countryside which influenced all his work. His secondary studies completed, he became a student and collaborator of his uncle Edmond Duplessis. Introduced, around the same time, to the technique of wood engraving by his uncle and by Eugène Dété, he soon worked for the “Illustrated Life”. He exhibited in Paris, from 1900, at the Independents and at the Salon of French Artists where he presented an original wood: the portrait of his mother. He married, had three children and moved to Gentilly. He took drawing lessons with Juillan, Colarossi, in various academies, and passed brilliantly, before his military service, the competition for the best workers in France. Mobilized in 1914, seriously wounded in the first months of the war and taken prisoner, he remained for two years in Germany, then twelve months in Switzerland, in Kartigen near Thoun: there he painted and drew prison camp scenes, as well as landscapes that he successfully exhibited in Geneva. Back in France, Paul BAUDIER became a member of the French Artists, he had already obtained, at the Salon of this Society, an honorable mention in 1903 and a medal in 1906. In 1923, he was awarded the silver medal, in 1927, a gold medal at the International Exhibition, and a Medal of Honor in 1943. Member of the committee and the Jury of French Artists of which he became President, he was made in 1948, knight in the National Order of the Legion of 'Honor. These are the main rewards and distinctions that Paul BAUDIER will obtain during his life. They were well deserved, because this artist, a tireless worker, left a considerable and prestigious work as a draftsman, painter, engraver and illustrator. Judging by this simple enumeration of his principal works over the course of half a century. He illustrated Confessions of Saint-Augustin, The Poor Woman, by Léon Bloy, Monsieur des Lourdises, by Alphonse de Chateaubriand, Civilization, Possession of the World, The Life of the Martyrs, by Georges Duhamel, Le Chemin de Velours, Letters to the Amazon and Letters to Sixtine, by Rémy de Gourmont, The Light that Goes Out, by Rudyart Kipling, The Life of Beethoven, The Life of Michelangelo, The Life of Tolstoy, by Romain Rolland, The Servant Mistress, brothers Tharaud, Love, Odes in his honor, Romances without words by Paul Verlaine, Numa Roumestan, by Alphonse Daudet, etc. Other works are published by Paul BAUDIER “at the expense of the artist”. We also owe him works carried out for societies of bibliophiles; it illustrates, for example in colored wood, the Elementary Letters on Botany, by Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU, for bibliophile pharmacists. Eminent feeder, his illustrations are numerous and noticed. He frequents the famous Group of the Lachenal workshop in Chatillon where he makes friends among the artists he meets. Under the charm of this city and its surroundings, he decided to live there and had a pavilion and workshop built in rue des Egroux (now rue Guy Moquet) in 1927. It was under the cedar of Chatillon that he enjoyed the company of his friends, the master ceramists Edmond, Jean-Jacques and Raoul Lachenal. He met in this always welcoming hive, the great Sarah Bernhardt, the painters Van Dongen, Foujita and Suzanne Tourte, the sculptors Agnès de Fumerie, Hal bout, Ris pal, Névola At the same time he rubbed shoulders with renowned engravers, Edmond Dupluessis, Albert Decaris, P. A. Bouroux, the writers, Valmy Baysse, Georges d'Esparbès, Paul Valéry France”, by Jules Michelet. Paul BAUDIER trained many students in wood engraving, including his eldest daughter. His son Albert-Pierre wanted to learn the printing trade at the Ecole Estienne in Paris and graduated in 1925. Paul BAUDIER introduced him to Marthe Béquet, printer and typographer successor to Emile Béquet (who was the collaborator until 1907 of 'Auguste Lepère, Painter-engraver). Partners, Marthe Béquet and Albert-Pierre BAUDIER print the major works of Paul BAUDIER, as well as those of the greatest French and foreign masters of the 20th century: Rouault, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Miro, de Staël, Chagall, Arp