Early Life, Family and Artistic Training Auguste André Lançon enters the world on December 16, 1836, in Saint-Claude, Jura. He is born into a working-class household, the son of Pierre Simon Lançon, a carpenter, and Amélie Lacroix. An older brother, Aimé, grows up alongside him in the Jura region. The early years are defined by the quiet rhythms of Saint-Claude before the pull of the arts directs his path away from his father's trade. The transition from provincial life to formal training begins with a stint as an apprentice in a printing house in Lons-le-Saunier. At seventeen, the technica…