"Babar" author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father's popular picture book series about an elephant king and presided over its rise to a global, multimed
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Just 12 years old when his father, Jean de Brunhoff died, Laurent was an adult when he drew upon his own gifts as a painter and storyteller and released dozens of books about the elephant who reigns over Celesteville.