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M.R., ‘Exposition Suzanne Valadon’, L’Intransigeant, 29 January 1929, p. 5.
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Peyrat, Marie-Louise, ‘Suzanne de Bessines’, Limousin Magazine, March 1965, pp. 16–19.
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Roger-Marx, Claude, and Waldemar George, ‘Suzanne Valadon’ La Renaissance, April 1938, p. 48.
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Salmon, André, in Revue de France, January 1930, cited in June Rose, Mistress of Montmartre: A Life of Suzanne Valadon (London: Richard Cohen Books, 1998), p. 221.
‘Le Salon de 1884’, Le Figaro, 30 April 1884, p. 1.
‘Au Salon des Indépendants’, La Vie artistique, April 1911, p. 59.
‘Le Salon des Indépendants’, Le Populaire de Paris, 29 January 1920, p. 1.
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— ‘Après l’hommage rendu à Suzanne Valadon’, Le Populaire du centre, October 1949.
‘Suzanne Valadon’, Beaux-Arts, 15 April 1938, p. 3.
‘Suzanne Valadon’, Le Vieux Montmartre, March–April 1938, p. 4.
Tabarant, Adolphe, ‘Suzanne Valadon et ses souvenirs de modèle’, Bulletin de la vie artistique, Paris, December 1921, pp. 626–9.
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‘Le Tableau de l’âne’, Le Journal du dimanche, 26 June 1910, p. 402.
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— ‘Le Salon d’Automne’, Gil Blas, 1 October 1909, pp. 1–2.
— ‘Suzan
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Notes
Please note that some of the links referenced throughout this work are no longer active.
PROLOGUE
1. The following is drawn from the local paper’s report of this event in Bessines in 1949. A.R. Soulier, ‘D’une manière simple et touchante Bessines a honoré Suzanne Valadon’, Le Populaire du centre, October 1949. See also A.R. Soulier, ‘Après l’hommage rendu à Suzanne Valadon’, Le Populaire du centre, October 1949. Marie-Louise Peyrat, ‘Suzanne de Bessines’, Limousin Magazine, March 1965, pp. 16–19.
2. Suzanne Courdesses-Betout, Bessines au fil des siècles (Limoges: [n. Pub.], 1990), p. 272.
3. Maurice Utrillo, Histoire de ma jeunesse jusqu’à ce jour, published in Valadon Utrillo: Au tournant du siècle à Montmartre – de l’Impressionisme à l’École de Paris, exhib. cat. (Paris: Pinacothèque de Paris, 2009), pp. 65–131 (p. 68).
CHAPTER 1
1. Local dialect or patois was still the main form of social communication in the rural Limousin in the mid-19th century.
2. Georges Cerbelaud Salagnac, Histoire du Limousin (Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1996), p. 271.
3. The Green Guide Dordogne, Berry, Limousin (Herts: Michelin Apa Publications Ltd, 2007), p. 20.
4. On traditional costume, see Musée René Baubérot – Archéologie & Ethnographie – Châteauponsac, Haute-Vienne, visitor guide, pp. 16–17. Bérangère Guilbaud-Rabiller, Le Grand Almanach du Limousin 2016 (La Crèche: Geste éditions, 2015), semaine 23. Maurice Robert, La Maison, Le Village, Le Paysan en Limousin, 4th edn, 2 vols (Pageas: Société d’Ethnographie et de Sauvegarde des Patrimoines en Limousin, 2007), vol. II, pp. 159–60.
5. Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, La Vie quotidienne en Limousin au XIXe siècle (Paris: Hachette, 1976), p. 91.
6. Robert, p. 129.
7. Clancier, p. 159.
8. On the Limousin’s climate and traditional dwellings, see Clancier, pp. 29–31.
9. Clancier, pp. 85–6.
10. I am indebted to l’Association Racines à Bessines for allowing me to access all the Valadons’ birth, marriage and death records and particularly for helping locate the original plans of Mathieu-Alexandre Valadon’s estate.
11. On marriage in rural society during the 19th century, see Roger Price, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France (London: Hutchinson, 1987), pp. 165–70. Clancier, p. 78.
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