Houses at Vaugirard

Though born in Paris, Paul Gauguin spent his formative years in Peru. His father having died while the family was en route, Paul and his sister Marie lived with their mother in the home of their great-uncle in Lima for six years, before returning to France in 1855. From age eleven to sixteen his education continued in a Jesuit seminary in Orléans. Subsequently, he spent some seven years at sea, …