near the town of Vergèze, in the Languedoc-Roussillon wine growing region, where he would eventually be elected mayor.
Born in Vergèze, in the Gard, on 3 January 1891, he graduated from the École Municipale des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes in 1910, and in 1912 went to Paris on a national scholarship to further his talent as a painter and decorative artist, a talent that would come to be especially active and appreciated in the field of decorative arts.
Located just south-east of the commune is the production facility for Perrier, a carbonated mineral water widely sold both in France and internationally.
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