Eugene petit biography

French painter

Eugène Petit (1839–1886) was a French flower painter and textile designer.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Eugene Petit was born in Paris in 1839.^[1] He briefly taught the American painter Henry Woodbridge Parton, c.1875.^[3]

He specialized in still life paintings of flowers and fruits, as well as sporting dogs.^[1] His work has been found in museums in Carcassonne, Compiègne, Courtrai, Rouen and Saint-Etienne in France as well as The Sladmore Gallery in London.^[1][2] Some of his work has been auctioned at Bonhams.^[5][6] One of his hunting scenes, "On the Scent, Setters" sold at Sothebys in New York for $13,200 in 2006.^[7]

Work

• Summer Flowers in a Vase
• Still life with peonies and roses
• Daisies, Poppies And Wild Roses
• Summer blooms in a glass vase
• Spaniels hunting duck
• Still life
• Setters flushing out ducks
• Chrysanthemums in a brass urn, and a silver tray and jug on a draped table
• The Chas
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  Eugène Claudius-Petit

  French politician

  Eugène Claudius-Petit (1907–1989) was a French politician. He participated in many governments under the Fourth Republic and was a proponent of Firminy Vert. He later added his pseudonym from the Resistance, "Claudius", to his name.

  Early life and career

  He was born on 11 May 1907 in Angers, and died on 24 October 1989 in Paris.^[1]

  The son of a railway worker, he attended primary school in his hometown and then became an apprentice and made his tour of France as a journeyman. He worked for a cabinetmaker in Paris and then joined the Rambault Furniture Company in Angers. He took courses in the hopes of becoming an art teacher. He later became anarchist in his political views and campaigned briefly in the libertarian movement. He also hosted a local union CGTU then joined after a meeting with Marc Sangnier.

  He joined the French Resistance under the name Claudius. In 1942, he was part of the executive committee of Free Marksman in which Peter Degon later joined. In 1943 he became a founding member of the CNR wher

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  Claudius-Petit, Eugène

  Date of birth:

  May 22nd, 1907 (Angers, France)

  Date of death:

  October 24th, 1989 (Paris, France)

  Nationality:

  French

  Biography

  From 1927 to 1929, he did his military service in a company of aviation workers in Versailles. Freed from his military obligations, he enrolled in evening classes at the Ecole Boulle then at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts décoratifs in Paris.
  
  In 1934 Eugène Petit was admitted to the CAPES of drawing and was appointed teacher at the Lycée Ampère in Lyon. In 1939, he was mobilized at the Bron-Lyon Aviation Park as reserve sergeant-chief.
  
  He heard the Appeal of June 18 and, resolutely refusing defeat, decided to join the Resistance.
  
  He made contact with his friend Antoine Avinin's "France Liberté" (future "Franc-Tireur") movement and began to manufacture false papers, photos, distribute leaflets and illegal newspapers. It also ensures the distribution of the newspaper Franc-Tireur in university circles.
  
  Under the name of "Claudius", Eugène Petit replaced, in May 1942, Antoine Avinin, who had just been arre