Word: brunhoff
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DIED. CECILE DE BRUNHOFF, 99, who invented the tale of Babar the elephant, which her husband, writer-painter Jean de Brunhoff, and later her son Laurent, turned into the famous, internationally beloved series of illustrated children's books, which now number close to 50; in Paris. To calm her sons Laurent and Mathieu one night in 1930 when the latter was ill, she told the story of an orphaned elephant who flees the jungle and winds up in a big city much like Paris...