(b Le Fresne, 13 Aug 1822; d S?vres, 11 Jan 1885). French printmaker and draughtsman. He grew up in Paris, leaving his working-class family as a teenager to take up a Bohemian lifestyle. Apparently self-taught, he executed his first crudely drawn etchings in 1839. He knew several writers, including Baudelaire and Jules Champfleury, and was himself the model for the latter's first novel, Chien-Caillou (1845), a romantic portrait of an eccentric, poverty-stricken artist. The title was Bresdin's nickname, actually a fractured version of Chingachgook, the hero of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826).

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