Toulouse-lautrec death

By John David Ike, MD Candidate, Emory University School of Medicine

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Count Henri Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, more commonly known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French-born artist renowned for his depictions of the bohemian life in Montmartre in fin-de-siècle Paris.

Born into a noble family in the south of France, Lautrec was the last of a bloodline who claimed descent from Henry IV of England and blood-relation to Charlemagne, the former Holy Roman Emperor of France.¹ While Lautrec’s childhood was marked by social and financial wealth and good fortune, in early adolescence he suffered two significant fractures of his left and right femurs in quick succession.

Following these injuries, Lautrec’s growth was significantly stunted, leaving him permanently disfigured, crippled, and unable to participate in the bourgeois activities his family enjoyed, namely hunting and horseback riding.

As a result, Lautrec turned to the arts, eventually becoming o