Jules Daumier was born in Paris in 1916 and died in
.
He comes from the cadet branch of the Beaufort, being the grandson of Charles Daumier whose family picture you find in pieces.
He falls in love with a friend of his Greek cousins,
Samaras. They get married in the middle of WWII and move to Athens, where they live near the current metro station
.
Some years later, he meets the pianist Elena Beaufort, a distant relative. She gets him hired as an assistant to the producer
for the recording of her piece
To Spiti.
He also makes the portrait photography of the artist that appears on the cover of the album, using his faithful Canon
camera.
In 1956, Elena dedicates her autobiography to him, titled
.
His wife and him spend their summers in the Dodecanese Islands, in the family home of his cousins inherited from an ancestor who took part in the construction of the Eiffel Tower. In the 1960s, he is one of the most famous music photographers in Greece. In 1972 he has a brief affair with pianist Angeliki
.
From the mid-1970s, he is a patron of several cultural institutions, including the
.
Your father
moves in with his grandparents for a year: he arrives in Athens on
.
He takes a picture of Jules smoking that will be found by his bedside after his death. On a desk, you find a torn score sheet of a game of "grabia", a house variant of poker, where Jules obtained
points. From a young age he is passionate about games, especially Scrabble and cards. The drawer of his nightstand is closed by a padlock whose combination is
.
Jules Daumier is buried in a graveyard located near
.