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Camille Claudel, an angry artist.

Camille Claudel was not quite 18 years old when she left her hometown, Villeneuve, with her mother and siblings and moved to the capital. Noted soon afterwards for her highly accomplished and powerful sculptures, she subsequently studied with Rodin, who was all the rage in Paris at the time. Despite the twenty-year age difference between teacher and pupil, a passionate and tumultuous love sprung up between them, which would eventually lead to Camille’s downfall.

Consumed by jealousy and anxiety about being exploited, she was deemed deviant and confined for thirty years in the Montdevergues Asylum, where she was deprived of her freedom, including the right to express herself.

Cut off from the world, reduced to silence for all those years, she never stopped crying out for freedom.

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