Berthe Morisot
1841–1895
Impressionist from the first exhibition; her death certificate listed no profession
Cimetière de Passy, Paris
In memory of
Auguste Rodin
Sculptor
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 77 years
- Resting place
- Villa des Brillants, Meudon, near Paris, France
Rejected three times by the École des Beaux-Arts, Rodin worked for years as a decorator's assistant. His first important figure was so lifelike that he was accused of casting it from a living model, and he had to prove otherwise.
He gave the French state his entire collection on condition that it be kept as a museum. He and his wife Rose, who died two weeks before him after fifty-three years together, lie in the garden at Meudon beneath a cast of "The Thinker".
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1822–1895
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Olympe de Gouges
1748–1793
Wrote that woman has the right to mount the scaffold, and was proved right
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