Louis Paviot was born in Lhuis in the Ain region of France in 1872. Paviot would have been a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. He studied in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens and Doucet. He is best known as a painter of landscapes, Paris and Lyon cityscapes, nudes, and floral still-lifes.

At the turn of the century, he was amongst the prominent artists. Thus, in Le journal , G. Geffroy places Paviot among the heirs of Monet and Cézanne, along with Bonnard, Vuillard, A. André, Camoin and Valtat. In the Cahiers d'Art et de Littérature of May 1905, J. Holl speaks of him as "a colorful realist".

A friend of Matisse, Renoir, Bonnard, and Denis, he exhibited with them at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. He was admitted to the Salon du Sud-Est from 1934 to 1940.