Charles Lucien Léandre (1862–1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. He was born on July 22, 1864 in Champsecret. His father was the mayor of the town in which they lived until his death in 1868.

At 16, Léandre met the painter Émile Bin, who would instruct Léandre, who then received multiple awards for his artistic talents in his twenties. From 1887 he figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.

The series of the "Gotha des souverains," published in Le Rire, and Leandre's other work like that seen in L'Assiette au B...