The Pulse of the Port Paris, 1890. A child is born into a family defined by bronze and stone, the son of the sculptor Louis-Philippe Hébert. While his father works on monumental castings, young Adrien moves between France and Canada, a life split by the Atlantic. The boy does not merely watch the Seine; he studies it. During his formal training in Paris under Fernand Cormon, he often finds himself playing truant from the studio to obs…