Raoul Eugène Lamourdedieu (1877-1953) was born at Faugerolles (Lot-et-Garonne). He studied at the École des Beaux Arts at Bordeaux. He won the Prix de la Ville de Bordeaux at the age of twenty. He moved to Paris and studied at the École des Beaux Arts. Be became a professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, a member of La Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and of the Salon d’Automne. He created numerous medals and sculpture in carved wood and other materials.