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Julie Manet, the niece of Edouard Manet and the daughter of the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in Paris on 14 November 1878 into a wealthy and cultured milieu at the height of the Impressionist era. Many young girls still confide their inner thoughts to diaries…
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There’s nothing like a letter or diary for whizzing you straight back into someone else’s head and bringing to life the world they inhabited. 14-year-old Julie Manet’s faded exercise books have become a precious art historical document. Julie was the daughter of the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, brother of the man who brought Paris Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe. Meanwhile, Renoir was like an uncle, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé her guardian, while Julie thought nothing of sauntering around the Louvre in the company of Edgar Degas; this was not a ‘normal’ childhood. Julie’s diary transports us to a…
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