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Jansson's parents belonged to a social stratum straddling the working and the lower middle class, but they were interested in art and music and ambitious for their two sons, Eugène and his younger brother Adrian. Eugène went to the German School in
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in 1881, but did not have the means to follow most of his contemporaries to Paris for further studies. Remaining in
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