The artist also painted worldly scenes. The velvety and silky aspect of his technique was remarkable. His achievements of Symbolist inspiration were (and still are) particularly appreciated by connoisseurs.

Lucien-Victor Guirand was the son of Jean-Antoine Guirand, a traveling clerk, and Catherine Mélanie Fournaire. A pupil of Fernand Cormon at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris (School of Fine Arts in Paris), he specialized in pastel technique. He regularly exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Artistes Françaises, then at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts, of which he became a partner, then a member, then member of the committee, and finally president in 1937, replacing the landscaper André Dauchez. He also became a member of the Société des Pastellistes de France, of which he becamepresident. In 1903, he created the decoration of the fireplace and various panels of the Molière theater in Sète, inaugurated in 1904.

In January 1906, he married the French actress, Marie-Thérèse Piérat (stage name Marie-Thérèse Panot) a member of the Comédie-Française. The weekly magazine of the week tells us that it was ‘the great event of the week’. The religious marriage was celebrated the next day in the Church of the Trinity, resplendent with light. An immense crowd in which most of the glitterati and theatrical world of the time were seen attending the ceremony. Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola had his studio in Paris at 42 Rue Fontaine until 1910, domiciled in Paris at No. 91 avenue de Villiers. By that time he was appointed Knight of the Legion