Louis Daquin is a French director and screenwriter, born May 30, 19081 in Calais and died October 2, 1980 in Paris, in a family of small traders. Law graduate and graduate of HEC, after having been a journalist, advertising editor at the Renault factories, and having tried his hand at theatrical writing, Louis Daquin, Louis LĂ©on Auguste Daquin of his full name, became assistant director in 1932, he worked notably