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The French sculptor Camille Claudel was the muse, pupil, and lover of Auguste Rodin , as well as a major artist in her own right. She is perhaps better known for her tempestuous relationship with Rodin than for her moving works of art, many of which can be found at the Musee Rodin in Paris. After her breakup with Rodin in , Claudel composed some of her best sculptures, yet she grew increasingly reclusive and paranoid.

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In her family committed her to an insane asylum, where she remained for the last 30 years of her life. The family moved occasionally as Louis-Prosper's work demanded, living for a time in the small town of Bar-le-Duc, where Claudel first attended school at the age of six. However, the family returned often to its ancestral home in the small village of Villeneuve in the Champagne region of France.

Though not wealthy, the Claudels were well established in the community and lived comfortably. At an early age Claudel took an interest in modeling with clay, finding in the art of sculpture an outlet for her active imagination. A willful and precocious child, she quickly adopted the identity of an artist and never doubted her talents.

Before she had even taken lessons in sculpture, Claudel coaxed every family member—her father, mother, brother, and sister—into posing for clay-modeled portraits. While Claudel's father encouraged his daughter in her pursuit of art, the young sculptor's mother never accepted what she regarded as her daughter's unconventional, proud, and wayward disposition.

Of her three children, Louise-Athenaise favored Claudel the least, preferring her obedient and traditional younger sister, Louise.