Whilst Rene Jules Laliques childhood years seem to be shrouded in somewhat of a mystery, it is known that he was born to Jules and Olype Berthellemy Lalique on the 6th April 1860. For the first two years of his life the family lived in Ay, in the Champagne region of France, about a hundred miles to the northeast of Paris.
By 1862 the family had moved to Paris where his father worked as a merchant dealing in novelties. Throughout his childhood years, Rene and his family made frequent return visits to their rural roots to see family and friends. This is where and when his love of nature began to develop. He loved to take walks with his grandfather into the surrounding countryside and woodland, where he studied nature at close quarters. Nature fascinated him; he loved everything about it, from vegetation to animals.
He began his education at Turgot Lycee near the Parisian suburb of Vincennes, where he studied art and was awarded first prize in a drawing competition during his time there.
At the age of sixteen, shortly after his fathers death, Rene, in all probability, steered by his mother, embarked upon his apprenticeship with Louis Aucoc, one of the leading...
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