Camille: The Life of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse and Mistress
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Camille: The Life of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse and Mistress
Reine-Marie Paris
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4 out of 5 stars Claudel: Rodin's greatest student --.......2005-10-31

-- and greatest teacher.

Mme. Paris has written a brief but affectionate, even zealous book on the life and career of Camille Claudel. It summarizes her upbringing in a bougeois but emotionally austere houshold. Perhaps she was never encouraged in her art. At least she was never actively discouraged, and did find some creative kinship in her brother Paul.

Her rise was meteoric. By her twenties, she was producing major work of remarkable expressiveness. Art was a man's world then. With its physical demands of stone and foundry work, sculpture was considered the most masculine among arts. Still, Boucher and then Rodin took her on as student and muse. According to Mme. Paris, Rodin's style owes much to Claudel - perhaps acknowledged in his "Eternal Idol," where the male figure kneels in obeisance and passion before the female.

The passion was real. Claudel lived with Rodin for more than a decade, and it has been claimed that his art stultified when she left him. Rodin remained fond of her until he died, but her leaving may have marked the start of Claudel's tragedy. Her mind gradually turned against itself. Irrational fears took command of her life, and her ability to tend her own needs slowly failed. About age forty, she was committed to an asylum for the insane. She never recovered, and died after more than thirty years of custody. Part of this book reproduces the letters from her years of confinement, and correspondence relating to her care.

The small body of work she left documents that tragedy. There's no sign in it of her illness, but her ouvre shows what she was and hints at what she could have become. Her illness stole her talent, not only from herself, but from the world as well.

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Camille Claudel: A Life
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  • Outstanding Biography About a Great 19th-Century Scuptor
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  • "Camille Claudel-A Life" Odile A-Clause
Camille Claudel: A Life
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Until now, the 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel (1864- 1943) may have been best known for her much-romanticized relationship with sculptor Auguste Rodin, who has been erroneously portrayed as abandoning the fragile Claudel to a nervous breakdown. But this first fully researched biography of Claudel abolishes the myths attached to her life and asserts the brilliance of her art.

Drawing upon ample unpublished material, including family photographs, private letters, and medical records, Odile Ayral-Clause reveals the truth about Claudel's affair with Rodin and about her confinement and death in a mental asylum. Using Claudel's own words, she describes the crushing reproofs and prejudices the sculptor confronted — from her family, from society, from the male-dominated art world. For art historians and feminists, such issues are as relevant today as they were in fin-de-siècle Paris.

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5 out of 5 stars Outstanding Biography About a Great 19th-Century Scuptor.......2005-10-25

I read this book last year after seeing the last half of the Isabelle Adjani/Gerard Depardue film on television. The film didn't give Claudel her due. She was a very tough minded woman trying to make her mark in the intensely competitive and 99.99 percent male French nineteenth-century art world. Aside from that her chosen (from childhood) form of expression was sculpture, considered to be purely masculine and financially extremely risky. She was barred from the best art school, L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, because of her gender. Lesser schools accepted female students but charged them higher fees. At age seventeen Claudel began her studies at the Academie Colarossi, a new and equitable institution. Eventually she became Rodin's student and lover. When it became clear that Rodin would never leave his long-time partner and mother of his son in order to marry her, Claudel left him.

She lived and worked under enormous pressure -- not the least of which came from her mother and sister, very conventional and rather dreary middle-class people. No doubt Claudel was eccentric and nervous because of the difficulties of her life, but she was not insane. Her mother had her committed to a mental hospital after her father died and was no longer able to protect her. Claudel was not yet forty. She never sculpted again. Claudel died a pauper at seventy-nine after living the last half of her life with the insane and other inconvenient people. Her mother and sister never visited her. Her brother visited her two or three times during her incarceration.

Claudel was a genius. For a century Rodin's name overshadowed hers, but since a major retrospective at the Musee Rodin in 1984 and important exhibitions in the U.S. her work is known all over the world. Many of her pieces can be seen at the Musee Rodin in Paris.


Ayral-Clause's biography of Camille Claudel is a great gift to English speaking readers. It is deeply researched, beautifully written, and is enhanced with many photographs of Claudel, her milieu and her sculptures. I am very glad I read it.

5 out of 5 stars Life.....If You Could Call It That!.......2004-10-27

Camille Claudel was an amazing Parisian sculptress who lived far before time was good to her and this biography does her justice...finally!

Born in 1864, Camille Claudel grew up with an ambition un-worthy of her sexual status. She held within her being an artistic fire that was only extinguished by supposed madness. I have the feeling that had this woman been alive today her art and her spirit would thrive. But during the 19th century women were still meant to be barefoot and pregnant with no ambition other than being a wife and mother. Claudel struggled to represent her art and her spirit was destroyed by those she loved the most. She fought against a mother who wanted to keep her quiet and reserved, she defied her brother's idealistic religious beliefs and she competed against the world renowned artiste, Auguste Rodin. Despite the odds against her she created many works of pure and exquisite beauty proving that women could surpass men if given a chance. But because of her spirited talent she was eventually relegated to a hospital for the insane due to her inability to deal with the pressures of a love not returned (with Rodin), financial ruin and a lack of respect for her hard honed works.

Camille Claudel captured the struggles of love, aging and sexism in her famous sculptures: Jeune Fille a la Gerbe (1887), Giganti (1886), Vertumme et Pomone (1905), La Valse (1905), Clotho (1893), L'Implorante (1894-1905) and the magnificent L'Age mur (1902). Her abilities were innate but fine tuned through her affiliation with Auguste Rodin. In this relationship Camille flourished at first, guided under the wing of a master (24 years her senior), but she soon succumbed to his jealous competitiveness and his inability to commit fully to her love. Comparing the two sculptors one finds Claudel to be the true master because she refines lines that Rodin tends to leave unbalanced. Their competitive natures are apparent in the similarities of ideas but in my opinion Claudel outshines her "mentor." Claudel created sculptures from many mediums some plaster, some clay, many marble and even onyx, jade and bronze as well as dabbling in other art forms such as charcoals and portrait paintings. Many of Claudel's best works remain lost due to her internment and her loss of ability to control her own work. She also destroyed many of her own pieces in her angry despair believing them to be under jeopardy of being stolen by "Rodin and his gang." Thankfully the art world has managed to retain most of her great pieces and they currently reside in (of all places) the Rodin Museum in Paris.

This biography is a wonderful read being both interesting and factual and additionally very well written by Odile Ayral-Clause. Camille Claudel lived a tragic life full of ups and downs eventually ending in complete despair. Her life is interesting because she was one of the forerunners for women's rights in that she refused to be dominated by male society and ferociously attacked anyone who attempted to destroy her dreams, unfortunately in 19th century Paris her actions labeled her insane, remember a woman who chose to wear pants was considered a criminal unless they obtained special permission from the police to do so and it was a popular thought at the time that talented women possessed genitalia very similar to men! I think society was more insane than Miss Claudel and I will forever wonder what she could have contributed had she been born in this century. The ending of this woman's tale is heartbreaking in itself but every page in between provides an eye-opening experience of what it must have been like to be an artistic woman during an age controlled by men.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant and fascinating.......2004-01-04

This book is the best, most meaningful work on Camille Claudel that I have read thus far. I highly recommend it as an accessible, informative, fascinating work that illuminates the life of one of the finest sculptors in France. Odile Ayral-Clause tells the truth, with unflinching honesty, drawing upon new documents that only came available in September 2000. She offers the details that make this woman's life come real for the reader.

5 out of 5 stars An excellent and intimate read!.......2003-02-05

Odile Ayral-Clause's work is excellent! I read the book from cover to cover last year and as I am now planning a trip to Paris this Spring, I am rereading the book again and enjoying it even more!

A.C. captures so well the spirit of the woman, her social environment, and the city of Paris.

Thank you for bringing this beautiful artist to life!

5 out of 5 stars "Camille Claudel-A Life" Odile A-Clause.......2002-12-02

I received "Camille Claudel-A Life" for my birthday this month.
I began reading it at noon and completed it by 4 pm. I could or nor would I put it down so to speak. The book is well written, excellent sources, index, bibliography. Unfortunately, the photo's are not of good quality but passable considering there are any left and the abuse of many photo's and her own work in itself which have vanished! I cannot blame the photographer who did his best! That in itself would be a photographer's dream to compile photoghraphs of her work and publish them as a book of photography of her work and places she lived.
I have studied Camille for years and sat through a relatively good film, "Camille Claudel" which made Rodin appear an outright monster and she a victim to the max. In analyzing the aforementioned I felt something was indeed amiss. In reading the book many if all of my questions were answered and I was delighted with the writers sensitivity and reality of what may have transpired. When I lived in Paris, by accident, I was standing outside of herlast atelier's before she was committed to an asylum by her family. This was 4 years ago and in asking questions about her at numerous bookshops the Sorbonne and communicating with noted people no one who knew more than I did about her! No one has completed such an intelligent, well documented and researched book as Odile A-Clause. Thank you, Ms. Clause, Thank You
Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel (Pegasus Library)
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Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel (Pegasus Library)
J. A. Schmoll Eisenwerth
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4 out of 5 stars A STORMY RELATIONSHIP.......2004-04-20

Books have been written and films produced about the stormy relationship between sculptor Auguste Rodin and promising sculptress Camille Claudel. Few liaisons have been as artistically fruitful or as emotionally turbulent.

In an attempt to freshly evaluate her work, this concise volume examines Claudel's impact upon Rodin's work, her family background, and her tragic descent into mental instability.

According to most biographers, Rodin's affection for Claudel continued even after their final separation as he continued to use her as a model. Perhaps the most poignant reminder of her is found in "The Thought," a pale, melancholy study.

Rich with illustrations by of works by both Rodin and Claudel, this title sheds new light on one of the most dramatic partnerships in the world of art.

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5 out of 5 stars A Refreshing Look at an all-too-politicized relationship.......2001-11-06

I found this book engaging and very interesting. The relationship between Claudel and Rodin is examined fully and with an eye to historical accuracy. Though some may wish to champion the cause of an artist largely unrecognized in important critical scholarship, such politicization of an historical event to meet modern aims is untenable at best. For those seeking an honest, thoughtful account of a dynamic and difficult relationship between a premier artist and an aspiring sculptor this book is worth the read. The reproductions are dazzling in quality and the design is pleasing and neat.

1 out of 5 stars downgrading Claudel to a copy of Rodin.......1999-05-21

Camille Claudel was too genuine, too proud an artist to ever allow her work to be a copy of Rodin's. Who knows maybe it should be the other way: Rodin copying Claudel...

1 out of 5 stars An uninspired work that lacks insight........1998-07-22

Schmoll has taken the party line on this piece and looks at every reason to discredit Claudel to the benefit of Rodin. Criticism of Claudel goes so far as to imply that her best works could have been touched up by Rodin. Schmoll even takes time to nitpick at Claudel's looks, pointing out that they were marred by a "weak" chin. From the beginning Schmoll compares the work of a young girl's in her 20's to that of a man in his 40's. It is one of the poorest critical studies of an artist that this reader has ever read.
Camille Claudel: A Novel
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Alma H. Bond Ph.D.
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Camille Claudel, an old lady confined to the Asylum for the Insane in Montdevergues, France, reviews her life. She says, “I hope my memoir will illustrate the heights of passion Rodin and I reached, and unravel the mystery of why they were transformed into vinegar and ashes.” The tragedy is not only hers, she adds, but that of many female artists who found it impossible to achieve the success of men artists of lesser ability. The book illuminates her childhood and the rise of her career in the setting of her ecstatic life with Rodin. Their ten years of bliss are followed by the disintegration of her love for him, and its evolution into hatred and psychosis. The last third of the book describes the horrors of Claudel's life in the asylum, ending with the highly original manner in which she comes to terms psychologically with Rodin and the other important figures in her life.

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4 out of 5 stars A Tempestuous Road.......2007-10-08


When I started this book, I quickly became depressed about this woman. Then I reached a point where I found myself fascinated by her thought process as a sculptor. She studied every person she saw and found in each face a library that is engraved on it the past, present, and future of its owner. And the body, too, she looked at as an historical record that is inscribed with the lives of the models in the lines and wrinkles of their flesh. She talks about how there are a great many aspects to understanding a subject on the most profound levels in order to shape a fine piece of sculpture. She even sculpted an autobiography in art of the great moments of her life.
When she sculpted, she thought about that person all the time until their essence was revealed to her and she understood them with her heart. Camille felt that God, who she believed was the greatest sculptor of us all, did this in boundless silence when he took the essence of Adam from the dirt on the ground, as she did with her clay.
She traveled a tempestuous road to become an artist. She fought discrimination against women, narrow-mindedness, and poverty. But she followed her passion and wanted the record of her life to help future generations to understand the horrors in the life of a woman artist who was betrayed by her times. Camille imagined her struggles would make it easier for women artists in the future.
She was disapproved of quite a lot, but the one criticism that never failed to leave her in a rage was when someone said, `The statue is pretty good, considering that it was done by a woman.' In the midst of any good reviews, the fact that she was a woman was made to seem as if she was an inferior, abnormal kind of being. How different would her life have been had the world valued her work as much as they did her male counterparts?
Her other passion was loving Rodin. She was his mistress for many years and wanted more than anything to marry him. She thought marrying Rodin would make her respectable. But he had a wife, and was quite satisfied with her. It was the greatest disappointment of her life and this obsession would ultimately cause her total collapse.
Camille died as she lived thinking Rodin and his henchmen were stealing her sculptures and her ideas. Her life was one battle after another and in her 40s she lost the war and ended up spending the last 30 years of her life in an asylum.

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5 out of 5 stars premonition of a good review.......2007-03-11

So how do you review a book you haven't yet read? Not easy... and why try? My talented partner whom I met by chance after nursing my wife through a long terminal illness has rekindled my love of art to the point where we are buying a house and studio to spend the rest of our lives creating. Before my wife fell ill and I became a full time carer I was an up and coming muralist so I know what it means to sacrifice one's art... for whatever reason. My new partner is a sculptor and musician and our joint interest in Rodin led us to uncover the Claudel story. We have Paris' book and movie, Schmoll/Eisenwerth along with various other titles and like everyone who reads about this gifted, neglected sculptor we have become infatuated with her. There are are obvious parallels and correspondences between her life and ours and, coming from a background in psychology, we are able to flesh out the fairly sparce body of extant facts as well as anyone. So why read this largely fictional book? For the same reason I guess that I read Olson's largely fictional 'Confessions Of Aubrey Beardsley' many years ago, for the joy of seeing one artist comment upon another. I am sure I will buy this intriguing book - but only after our current series of paintings and sculptures based on and around Camille are completed and our own ideas exhausted.

4 out of 5 stars Camille Claudel: A Story of Tragedy, Injustice & Heartbreak.......2007-01-18

The story of Camille Claudel is the story of a woman born ahead of her time, a female genius for whom the world was not ready, a woman who attained heights of artistic ecstasy and endured acute personal and mental agony.

Alma H. Bond has written a compelling account of Camille Claudel's tragic life. She presents the story as a memoir written by Claudel in the final days of her life. Although the broad outlines of the story are true, Bond has taken liberties in setting scenes, providing dialog, and revealing Claudel's purported thought processes and interpretations. Bond states clearly that hers is a fictional account, simply one plausible view of Claudel's life; it should not be read as a definitive biographical or historical work. Nevertheless, Bond reveals the heartbreak of a gifted woman working in a society that rejects her personally and pays scant attention to her artwork. Bond lifts the veil on the heartbreak of an impressionable, sensitive young woman betrayed by an older lover. Bond discloses the family dysfunctions that remained hidden from view, or ignored, even when they resulted in gross injustices. Clearly, even though the work is fictional, it offers a compelling, accurate glimpse at the life of an extraordinary artist and era in which she lived.

Bond's most extraordinary feat is the way she portrays Claudel's subtly deteriorating mental state. Early signs of paranoia are evident from the outset in Claudel's descriptions of her childhood home. During Claudel's happiest period, the height of her romance with Rodin, the paranoid tendencies are more subtle, but not entirely absent. After her breakup with Rodin, the paranoid tendencies resurface slowly and build gradually until Claudel's institutionalization in 1913. In an accurate depiction of mental illness, Bond balances Claudel's periods of lunacy and lucidity. Sometimes the reader is uncertain whether Claudel's viewpoint is delusional or uncannily insightful. Bond understands mental illness and she presents it masterfully.

Camille Claudel: A Novel is a beautifully written book that seizes the reader's mind and heart. Readers who have never heard of Camille Claudel will, upon finishing this book, seek to learn more about this wonderfully gifted artist and her work. This book, notwithstanding the fact that it is fiction, should be required reading for all students of women's studies and art history.

5 out of 5 stars Mayra Calvani -- TCM REVIEWS.......2006-12-03

In this her latest novel, psychoanalyst-turned-author Alma H. Bond offers the reader a beautiful, yet highly disturbing portrait of Camille Claudel, the gifted French sculptress from the late 1800's who was mistress to famous sculptor Auguste Rodin.

The story is told in first person through the eyes of Camille herself as she writes her own story while confined to an asylum, where she tragically spent the last thirty years of her life.

In lovely detail Camille pens her life from her early childhood to her very last days, giving a grim glimpse of her love/hate relationship with her mother, her love, edging on incest, to her younger brother, her struggle with the male-dominated artistic establishments of the time, and her turbulent, obsessive, destructive affair with Rodin, who was a married man.

The tale is addictive and totally engrossing. Bond brings to life the dark workings of Camille's genius mind, from her deepest obsessions to her paranoia. Camille comes across as an arrogant, selfish, ambitious yet complex and tragically frail figure of her times, when women artists were nothing more than "anomalies." Most remarkable is the gradual change in Camille's mind as she becomes more and more unstable. Flawlessly crafted and beautifully written, Camille Claudel: A Novel comes highly recommended from this reviewer.

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5 out of 5 stars Art Worthy of an Award.......2006-10-09

As the Entertainment Editor of Computer Times, I have given this novel our Editor's Choice Award.

Camille Claudel: A Novel (Retail $19.95), written by Alma H. Bond, is a fictionalized biography, written in the form of Camille's own memoirs. The truth is that Camille Claudel was a female artist who had to deal with the very male dominated field of art in the late 19th century. She created beautiful sculptures, had a lengthy love affair with the sculptor Auguste Rodin, and ended her life confined to a mental asylum in France. The novel takes these facts and expands upon them to paint a picture of who Camille was, who she loved, what inspired her, and how she devolved into a weakened mental state.

Camille is a character that has true depth of feeling, and is easy to relate to. You'll be drawn in to her thoughts and her world, and become a part of her very quickly. And when she begins to lose herself to her mind, the change is written so delicately that you will be well on the way to the asylum before you even realize that you are living in unreality. Alma Bond has done a masterful job of capturing this sympathetic artist on the page, and giving her the life and recognition that she has been due. Camille Claudel: A Novel was a genuine pleasure to read, and I was sincerely sorry when the last page was turned. I could have lived with Camille for many more chapters. Absolutely brilliant.
Une Femme (Biography of Camille Claudel)
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5 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Biography of a Remarkable Woman.......2000-07-11

Ann Delbee's nonficton treasure introduces us to one of the most compelling personalities of recent history. Camille Claudel was, in trite terms that fail miserably to serve her, a contemporary, colleague, and lover of the famed sculptor Auguste Rodin. Not a biography, but an unabashed dissection of the life, loves, works, and passions of a true renaissance woman, this biographical masterpiece illuminates every nuance of an exremely complex persona. Detail and development are so extensive that it is difficult to remind oneself that this is not AUTOBIOGRAPHY. We are thrust into the midst of the stormy relationship between Claudel and Rodin and learn of her influences on the great artist's life and work. At the same time, we reflect on Camille's own place in the art world. The author paints a vivid potrait of Camille's home and family life, especially the bond she shared with her brother, the poet Paul Claudel. Delbee succeeds with splendor in developing an understanding of Camille's unique position as a woman in her society. Ultimately, Camille Claudel rises from these pages both triumphant and tragic.
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5 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Biography of a Remarkable Woman.......2001-06-29

Ann Delbee's nonfiction treasure introduces us to one of the most compelling personalities of recent history. Camille Claudel was, in trite terms that fail miserably to serve her, a contemporary, colleague, and lover of the famed sculptor Auguste Rodin. Not merely a biography, but an unabashed dissection of the life, loves, and works of a true Renaissance woman, this biographical masterpiece illuminates every nuance of an extremely complex persona. Detail and development are so extensive that it is difficult to remind oneself that this is not AUTOBIOGRAPHY. We are thrust into the midst of the stormy relationship between Claudel and Rodin and learn of her influence on the great artist's life and work. At the same time we reflect on Claudel's own place in the art world of her time. The artist paints a vivid portrait of Camille's home and family life, particularly the special bond she shared with her brother, the poet Paul Claudel. Delbee succeeds with splendor in developing an understanding of Camille's unique positon as a woman in her society. Ultimately, Camille Claudel rises from these pages both triumphant and tragic.

5 out of 5 stars A Remarkable Biography of a Remarkable Woman.......2001-06-29

Ann Delbee's nonfiction treasure introduces us to one of the most compelling personalities of recent history. Camille Claudel was, in trite terms that fail miserably to serve her, a contemporary, colleague, and lover of the famed sculptor Auguste Rodin. Not merely a biography, but an unabashed dissection of the life, loves, and works of a true Renaissance woman, this biographical masterpiece illuminates every nuance of an extremely complex persona. Detail and development are so extensive that it is difficult to remind oneself that this is not AUTOBIOGRAPHY. We are thrust into the midst of the stormy relationship between Claudel and Rodin and learn of her influence on the great artist's life and work. At the same time we reflect on Claudel's own place in the art world of her time. The artist paints a vivid portrait of Camille's home and family life, particularly the special bond she shared with her brother, the poet Paul Claudel. Delbee succeeds with splendor in developing an understanding of Camille's unique positon as a woman in her society. Ultimately, Camille Claudel rises from these pages both triumphant and tragic.

5 out of 5 stars The most painful book I have ever read........1998-09-29

This is a book that I wish I had not read and yet it is one of the best books I have ever read. Camille Claudel's soul found it's path into mine and I felt all the hate towards August Rodin that she was incapable of because of her love for him and breathtaking passion for her own and his work. In a lot of ways this book resembles "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" in revealing how a human spirit will not bend....
Camille - The Life Of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse And Mistress
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    Camille - The Life Of Camille Claudel, Rodin's Muse And Mistress
    Reine-marie; Translated from the French by Tuck, Liliane Emery Paris
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    Camille Claudel
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      Camille Claudel
      Nicole Barbier , Reine-Marie Paris , and Jacques Vilain
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        Camille Claudel
        Anne Delbee
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        Camille Claudel & Rodin: Time Will Heal Everything
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