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Miroslav Šašek

Miroslav Šašek was born on the 16^th November in the Prague district of Žižkov. He was an architecture graduate and studied drawing and painting with Czech landscape artist Otakar Blažíček, and after completing his studies he provided drawings for newspapers and illustrated a large number of books, as well as designing puppets in collaboration with his first wife, Jindřiška.

In he moved to Paris to study at the École des Beaux Arts, and when the Communists came to power in what was then Czechoslovakia he made the decision not to return to his homeland.

He earned a living as a graphic artist (in advertising) and architect, and from he was employed in the Czech section of Radio Free Europe in Munich.

In he returned to Paris, beginning work on a children’s illustrated guide to that city – This is Paris – which was published in and succeeded by similar books on London (also ), Rome (), New York (), Edinburgh (), Munich (), Venice (), San Francisco