Jean Girard, known as Besancenot, was born in 1902 in the Oise. It was in 1934 that he arrived in Morocco for the first time with the desire to make documentation on costume and adornment. His approach is that of an artist, designer and painter, at the service of ethnography, an approach that he had already experienced by carrying out a study on certain regional costumes in Europe. The visual documentation, as complete as possible, which it constitutes will come as support and complement to make his drawings with gouache. On the ground, in addition to the written notes, he performs fast sketches or more advanced drawings when he has time and he completes this information with a large number of photographs, often entering the image in flight, on the spot. At the end of his life, after sorti.