François de Hérain
François de Hérain was a French painter, sculptor and engraver. He did many paintings of scenes in French Algeria and Morocco. He was the author of several art books. He won the Prix Charles Blanc from the Académie française for Peintres et sculpteurs écrivains d’art in 1961. His wife later married Marshal Philippe Pétain.
He lived in Paris and Les Baux de Provence, where a square has his name, Place François de Hérain.
