Death of Laurent de Brunhoff, Babar's second father. The French author, who successfully resumed the adventures of the famous character created by his parents in 1931, died at the age of 98.
The illustrator “died Friday at his home in Key West, Florida,” reported the New York Times newspaper. His wife Phyllis Rose who spoke of “complications after a stroke.” “He is in palliative care, at home, sleeping almost all the time, as sweet, calm and adorable as he has been all his life,” she wrote.