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The formative years

Jean Marc Lange was born in Canteleu, on the heights above Rouen, and spent his childhood in Grand-Quevilly, in Normandy.

His talent as a draughtsman showed early. Thanks to a special dispensation granted by his teachers, he was admitted at just fifteen to the École Régionale des Beaux-Arts in Rouen, then housed in the Aître Saint-Maclou, a sixteenth-century cloister in the heart of the old town.

His outstanding results soon led him to Paris.