Jean-Paul Perrenx was born on 20 June 1950 in Sétif (Algeria). In several texts, he has humorously recounted his childhood, marked by seminal memories, such as a trip to a circus where he saw real lions: "[...] there are always people who ask me why I paint lions. And I tell them that I don't know why I paint lions, since I've never seen any, except at the Piste aux Etoiles when I was a child in Algeria, and also a little in La Vie des Animaux, always on TV, and once in Algiers, because I had slipped under the tarpaulin of a circus to get in without paying, since I was doing the four hundred tricks when I was a child, around six and eleven...
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