(Faculté de Droit, Paris) 1903.

Sheet size: approx. 100x60mm. -- Signed satirical drawing from 1903, from the time where Morandiere was a student at the Faculté de Droit in Paris. The portrait most probably depicts one of his professors at the faculty. -- in very good condition. -- Léon Francis Julliot de La Morandière (Granville 1885-1968 Paris), is a French lawyer and academic, member of the 'Académie des sciences morales et politiques' from 1946. During his life, Morandiere was a passionate amateur painter. He created drawings and paintings. In Tokyo he became a close friend and collector of the works of Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (1886-1968). - Morandiere was lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Algiers in 1911-1912. He then teaches as a professor of civil law in Rennes de 1912 to 1914, Strasbourg from 1919 to 1922, then Paris from 1922 until 1955. He was director of the Franco-Japanese House from 1933 to 1936 and in Tokyo. Morandière was doctor honoris causa of the universities of Liège, Louvain, Cambridge, Glasgow, Manchester, Salonika, Stockholm, Basel, Prague, Laval and Cairo. He had received decorations from Tunisia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Greece, Japan, Italy, Belgium and Morocco. He was Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor (1955) and was decorated with the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with palm and the Resistance medal.

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