When Edmond Auguste Plaud was born on 7 April 1878, in Paris, Île-de-France, France, his father, Auguste Alexis Plaud, was 36 and his mother, Jeanne Wilhemine Groschel, was 40. He married Laure Fillot in 1909, in Trémentines, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. He died on 7 November 1964, in Talence, Gironde, Aquitaine, France, at the age of 86.