A cemetery worker spent decades turning a modest home in Chartres into a mosaic environment made out of broken crockery, porcelain and glass, according to the Ville de Chartres. What began with a few pieces collected from fields and rubbish repositories became La Maison Picassiette, now a museum owned by the City of Chartres and recognised as a national Historical Monument. Isidore was born in Chartres on September 8, 1900, the seventh of eight children in a modest family of the era. He received a basic education and moved through several jobs, from being a foundry moulder to a railway employee and municipal theatre prop man. He joined the City of Chartres as a road worker in 1935, and later worked as a sweeper at Saint-Chéron cemetery, where he remained until resigning in 1958.
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