The Life and Artistic Path of Paul Albert Laurens Born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, Paul Albert Laurens was the son of the painter Jean-Paul Laurens and Madeleine Willemsens. His brother, Jean-Pierre Laurens, was also a painter. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, his family moved to the village of Fourquevaux in the Haute-Garonne department of southwestern France. Laurens attended school on Rue d'Assas, where he met…