1919 - 1933

In 1919, still military Etienne Marie. After his demobilization, the couple is installed in Paris until 1924, then in Saint-Germain on the consultings of a former friendly officer who gives again the desire to him, that he lost with the army, to go up with horse. That, while allowing him to use the horses of the regiment. It should be believed that the couple was well in Saint-Germain since they will remain 41 years there. But of this love of horses, that it draws so admirably that one describes it as larger draughtsman of the noble animal in the world of the comic strip, he will keep a final wound. In 1933, whereas he assembles the horse of a friend, he makes a terrible fall which causes him a double and loss fracture of the skull of the sight of an eye. Its activity is blocked during nearly one year. What he constrained, in particular, to give up a project of illustrations with a Norwegian review.