Wagon Lits Andre Francois

A wagon-lit is a sleeping car, specifically on a European railway. It’s a railway car designed to accommodate passengers for sleeping, often referred to as a sleeper car. Andre Francois worked primarily as a painter and sculptor, but he also had a strong international reputation as a cartoonist (notably for the New Yorker and Punch) and poster artist, as an award-winning author and illustrator of children’s books, and as a designer for the stage.