Hospital de montfavet camille claudel biography
Hospital de montfavet camille claudel biography
Paul claudel biography...
Hammer and chisel to old asylum system
Dr Dermot Walsh examines the life of French sculptor Camille Claudel, who died in the Montdevergues Asylum at Montfavet near Avignon in 1943, and discusses how psychiatric care in France evolved and modernised away from the asylum system.
Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois in the Aisne in North East France, but the family moved shortly afterwards to the former presbytery of the very small village of Villeneuve-sur-Fère, where she spent her early childhood and went to the local school.
Then the family undertook a series of moves to other nearby locations and ultimately to Paris in 1871, when Camille was 17, but retained the residence at Villeneuve, returning there each summer.
Dr Dermot Walsh
From early on, Camille had been fascinated by organic materials such as stone and earth, including the massive rock formation at the Hottée du Diable near Villeneuve, which she used to visit with brother Paul often at night when the