After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city.

Soon after the end of World War II Laurent who had followed in his father's footsteps as a painter and had also studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiėre began work on a Babar book of his own. Babar and His Children. He was the fourth and youngest child of Maurice de Brunhoff a publiJean de Brunhoffr and his wife Marguerite.

Michel de Brunhoff arranged for the black and white drawings to be painted in color drafting the then-thirteen-year-old Laurent to do some of the work. He was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The French publishing house Hachette later bought the rights to the Babar series.