He then found work selling tooth powder as a door-to-door salesman and also worked delivering wine by bicycle in the Gironde. He was expelled from school as a young man, and then failed to pass exams for the post office, a bank and the railways. He was first raised by foster parents, but then his mother took him back in she lived with his alcoholic stepfather, and the child experienced violence at home. Sempé was born on 17 August 1932 in Pessac, near Bordeaux to a single mother. For decades, he created covers for The New Yorker. He is known for the series of children's books he created with René Goscinny, Le Petit Nicolas, and also for his poster-like illustrations, usually drawn from a distant or high viewpoint depicting detailed countrysides or cities. Jean-Jacques Sempé, usually known as Sempé ( French: 17 August 1932 – 11 August 2022), was a French cartoonist.
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