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J.D. spent all his childhood and most of his youth in Brittany (see § Concameau). Throughout his life, he always enjoyed the legends of Cornwall and remained impregnated with the celtic mentality. J.D. was born near Paris, in the small town of Nogent-sur-Mame, where his father, an army medical officer, was stationed. He was the fifth child of Etienne Deyrolle and Jeanne, born, Moallic. Etienne, son of the painter Théophile Deyrolle (see § Heredity) was himself an archaeologist as well as an amateur painter. As the result of Etienne's new appointment, the Deyrolle family settled in Vannes. J.D. was only one year old. In 1922, they moved again to Quimper where the Doctor Deyrolle ran the hospital of the army. |
However, Mrs Deyrolle and her children stayed in Brittany, when the next year, her husband was detached in Syria... In his capacity as Minister of Health and Fine Arts of the State of Alaouites (one of the autonomous territories of the new Federation of Syria, the capital of which was Lattakieh), he participated in the excavations of Baalbek. In November 1924, he died suddenly in Beirut. Then J.D. went to Concarneau to his grandmother's, called Suzanne and stayed there from the age of fourteen to seventeen; In 1928, he left for Paris to attend the " Art et Publicité " School but he would come back to spend all his holidays at Concarneau and there he met again his cousin, Jeannine Guillou. | ||||||
