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 observe the heavy boat traffic and the rhythmic movement of ships on the river. This early fascination with transit and industry forms the bedrock of his vision.…