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Paul Cézanne was born into a bourgeois family in 1939 in Aix-en-Provence, Southern France. It was a large aristocratic town and in the mid 1800's it went into decline gradually wiping out the aristocrats. The bourgeoisie took over in terms of power and Cézanne's family became increasingly wealthy. They eventually owned the large estate of Jas de Bouffon. Cézanne's closest friend was Zola. He encouraged him from the age of fifteen to paint and draw. From the age of eighteen Cézanne struggled with his need to paint and his father's wishes for him to study Law. He would spend the rest of his life moving between Paris and Provence and trying to please both himself and his father. Up until his fathers death in 1886 he was completely financially dependant on him. It was due to this that he resented his father. He struggled between pleasing and resisted him...

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