Michel Delacroix was born in 1933 on the Left Bank, in the 14th Arrondissement of Paris. He started painting at the early age of seven—just as the German Occupation of Paris began. Paris as it was during the Occupation is the Paris that appears in his paintings: there is a virtual absence of automobiles and streetlights; the city is quiet and quaint. His city-scapes display a simpler Paris of the past, of his boyhood, rather than the urban metr ...