Eliott was the son of a lithographer. An Anglophile, he took up an English pseudonym at an early age and tried to pass for an Englishman. He was called up for the army in 1914, and married a young woman from
Normandy in 1915, where he settled in 1917 after treatment for depression. The couple also lived in England for a while. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he made a living doing illustrations for
Nos loisirs,
Mon journal,
Le Sourire, and
la Revue Illustrée. As an artist he is best known for his humorous stenciled prints, and hunting scenes in the Victorian style of
Randolph Caldecott and above all
Cecil Aldin, illustrator for
Charles Dickens. He was one of a number of French Dickens illustrators active in the 1930s. He also illustrated youth novels, most notable those published by
Hachette for their
Bibliothèque verte collection, which published well-known novels such as
David Copperfield and
White Fang. From 1923 to 1940 he drew cover illustrations for
Le Chasseur français, an important publication for hunters, and for the catalogs of
Manufrance, a mail order company. ==References ==