Louis Touchagues arrived in Paris in 1923 where he became a magazine designer and illustrator including for L'Art Vivant, Paris-Journal, The Literary News, satirical Crapouillot, and Le Charivari.

He was also a parliamentary draftsman and was delegated by the Beaux-Arts as a draftsman at the first Peace Conference following World War II. His subjects including documenting the arrival of General de Gaulle in Paris. He illustrated many books of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette , Sacha Guitry, Marcel Achard, Marcel Ayme, Georges Duhamel, Joseph Delteil ( Joan of Arc ), and as a designer for women, created three albums: Women and Models, La Parisienne, and Waves in St. Tropez. As a painter, he exhibited alongside Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Ossip Zadkine, and Marie Laurencin.

His taste for decoration lead him to make stage sets and costumes for his friends from Lyon, Henri Beraud and Marcel Achard, and he also completed porcelain sets for Camille Le Tallec.

He worked for Charles Dullin in the workshop, and Louis Jouvet at the Comedie-French. As a decorator, Touchagues hosted big parties and decorated the bar smokehouse in the Comedie-French. As a muralist he completed many frescoes for individuals, for the Chapel of the Hermitage Cindre Mont Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or near Lyon, and for the mobile ceiling at Lasserre. He also designed stained-glass windows for the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris.

An association created in 1993 honored Louis Touchagues for having intended to "give back to the work of Louis Touchagues painter (his) deserved place in the artistic heritage of France" and for implementing the restoration of the fresco of the porch of the chapel the Hermitage in 1998 and the altar in 2002."

Submitted by Gerald Rothmann, whose source is Wikipedia ("Louis Touchague," translation from French), Accessed 8/2015