Prosper Lafaye

Prosper Lafaye, originally Lafait (23 September 1806, Mont-Saint-Sulpice - 3 March 1883, Paris) was a French painter at the court of King Louis-Philippe I.

At the age of fourteen, he left his family to live with an uncle in Paris.

During a trip to Burgundy in 1845, he developed an interest in the creation and restoration of stained glass windows.

He trained himself by participating in projects at Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux and Saint-Eustache, then undertook restorative work on his own at several churches, including Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, Saint-Médard [fr] and Saint-Merri.

In addition to giving him three girls and a boy, she became an indispensable part of the window production process and may have created some entirely on her own.