January 12: he meets Florette Orméa in Monte Carlo.

October 3: Jacques and Florette are present when the Nazis arrest Tristan Bernard and his family during a raid on the Hôtel Windsor in Cannes.

Paris is liberated: Lartigue takes hundreds of photographs.

August 28: he marries Florette Orméa. The couple divides its time between Paris and Piscop in Val-d'Oise.

September : Lartigue attends the first Cannes International Film Festival, originally planned for 1939. Long a habitué of the film studios, he becomes an annual fixture at this event.

He acquires a Rolleiflex 6x6 and starts taking color shots again, selling a number of photos to the press.

While a guest of André Dubonnet at Cap d'Antibes, he meets a young, little-known American Senator, John F. Kennedy. Ten years later, the issue of Life magazine covering JFK’s assassination also carries the first major article on the photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Foundation of the society Gens d'Images with Lartigue as vice-chairman. Albert Plécy publishes Lartigue’s photos in Point de vue et Images du Monde.

Gens d'Images organizes a photography show at the Galerie d'Orsay in Paris with works by Brassaï, Doisneau, Man Ray and Lartigue.

Jacques travels to Havana with Florette for an exhibition of his paintings. Fidel Castro and his guerrillas have just begun their campaign in the Sierra Maestra. Jacques is forced to leave his canvases behind when he journeys on to Mexico and New Orleans.