Odon

1940, November 1st - Born in le Mans (Maine)
1956, October - Student at the Ecole régionale des beaux-arts d'Angers, where he becomes friends with Colette Tessier, his favorite fellow. He stays there for 2 years.
1959, June - At the end of his 3rd year, he gets the CAFAS at the Ecole des beaux-arts du Mans.
1959, October - Enters the Ecole régionale des beaux-arts de Tours for his 4th and 5th years of studies.
1961, July 5th - Gets the Diplôme national des beaux arts (engraving section) with "mention" (compliments of the jury), at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris.
1961, December 2nd - Marries Colette Tessier at the Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc of Coëffort, in le Mans.
1963, February 19th - Birth of Céline-Marie, their only child. After a long illness, she dies at 35, on February 13th 1999.
1976, October 2nd - The couple moves to Nogent-sur-Marne and transforms an old printing house into a workshop. In art: weaving appears.
1985, March 15th - Guy Houdoin is clinically dead for 4 minutes after a cardiac arrest.
1998, November 1st - From now on, Guy Houdoin will be Odon.
2007, March 14th - Odon is made a knite of the order of Arts and Letters.