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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 301 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARAN D'ACHE, the See also:

pseudonym (meaning " See also:lead-See also:pencil ") of See also:Emmanuel Poire (1858-1909), See also:French artist and illustrator, who was See also:born and educated at See also:Moscow, being the See also:grandson of one of See also:Napoleon's See also:officers who had settled in See also:Russia. He determined to be a military painter, and when he arrived in See also:Paris from Russia he found an See also:artistic adviser in See also:Detaille He served five years in the See also:army, where the See also:principal See also:work allotted to him was the See also:drawing of See also:uniforms for the See also:ministry of See also:war. He embellished a See also:short-lived See also:journal, La See also:Vie militaire, with a See also:series of illustrations, among them being some See also:good-tempered caricatures of the See also:German army, which showed how accurately he was acquainted with military detail. His See also:special See also:gift See also:lay in pictorial See also:anecdote, the See also:story being represented at its different stages with irresistible effect, in the artist's own mannered simplicity. Much of his work was contributed to La Vie parisienne, Le See also:Figaro illustre, La See also:Caricature, Le Chat noir, and he also issued various albums of sketches, the Carnet de cheques, illustrating the See also:Panama scandals, See also:Album de croquis militaires et d'histoire sans legendes, Histoire de See also:Marlborough, &c., besides illustrating a good many books, notably the See also:Prince Kozakokoff of Bemadaky. He died on the 26th of See also:February 1909. A collection of his work was exhibited at the See also:Fine See also:Art Society's rooms in See also:London in 1898. The See also:catalogue contained a prefatory See also:note by M. H. Spielmann.

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