Louis Joseph Morizot (Morizot Pere) (1874 – 1957)

Louis Joseph Morizot, known as Morizot père, was born 1874 in Darney, a small town in the Vosges region of France very near Mirecourt. Although his father was an iron worker his grand father was the famed bow maker Guillaume Maline. The young Louis Morizot first learned bow making in the Mirecourt atelier of Eugène Cuniot-Hury before going on to work for and Charles Nicolas Bazin for whom he worked for about 14 years. Morizot then began working for Eugène Sartory. In 1920 he established his own atelier at no. 5 Rue Saint Georges Paris, by this time he had settled on his own refined and graceful model, with frogs styled after Sartory.

Winning the ‘Grand Prix’ at the first exhibition Artisanale de Paris in 1924. (Meilleur Ouvrier de France), and the the Gold medal at the Exposition Artisanale de Paris in 1927 propelled Morizot’s career.