René SAUTIN was born in the same village as the painter Albert Lebourg, whose advice he followed in his life as a painter, but he spent most of his life in the Andelys. After primary and secondary education in Montfort-sur-Risle and Pont-Audemer, he entered the Rouen School of Fine Arts in the studio of painter Philippe Zacharie. He went to Paris where he spent a year in the Ferrier workshop and exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants