Printmaker, graphic artist, and painter Alain Le Foll was born in Gesnes, France on July 4, 1934. His formal art training began at age 11 at the Beaux-Arts, Caen, followed by studies in graphic art, illustration, and lithography at the Academie Julian in Paris. From 1962 to 1964 worked as a designer for the Rosenthal porcelain manufacturing company and the Zuber wallpaper manufacturing company, before taking a position as a professor at the National School of Decorative Arts in Ensad. Among his students was the illustrator Jaqueline Delaunay. 

Among his oeuvre were several illustrated books by French authors Maurice Cocagnac, Claude Roy, and Bernard Noel, as well as a translated version of The Rose and the Ring by William M. Thackeray and several cookbooks. He also worked as a commercial artist, contributing to the campaigns of Rodier Knits, Shell Gasoline, Evian Water, Obao Japanese bath products, Atelier Primavera, and more. He exhibited his fine art throughout Europe, the U.S., and beyond, participating in major printmaking biennials in England, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Japan. 

Le Foll remained a professor at the National School of Decorative Arts until his death on June 22, 1981.