Raiq camille claudel biography

camille claudel - biography (2)

The family Claudel lives at rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs.

Camille rents a studio in the same street, number , with some English friends, among them Jessie Lipscomb.
Alfred Boucher introduces Camille to Paul Dubois, director of the École des Beaux-Arts.
She models the asymmetric sculpture 'La Vieille Hélène' in an unusual naturalistic manner after a domestic of the Claudel family.

Rodin models 'Ugolino'. 

Louis-Prosper is appointed to Rambouillet.
Replacing Alfred Boucher who was travelling to Italy to receive the award of Rome, Rodin supervises the class of Camille and her friends in their studio at rue 
Notre-Dame-des-Champs.

A love letter, that for a long time has been suppressed and finally turned up in the house of Cécile Goldscheider, proves that already by the fall of , while Camille is still 18,  Rodin and Camille had an intimate relationship.