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Born in a modest family, sister of the famous writer Paul Claudel ( 1868-1955 ), Camille was born to Fère-en-Tardenois on December 8, 1864; She spent a part of her childhood to Villeneuve-sur-Fère ( Aisne) in the family house where was born Paul. She decided very early to become a sculptor; she went to Paris in 1881, sure of her fate and her beauty.

In 1883, she meets Rodin and joins his studio the next year. Very fast the bright pupil becomes the love of Rodin, then in full effervescence with the creation of the Door of the Hell and the Bourgeois of Calais. The two artists influence mutually; the Girl with the bunch of wheat in 1887, announces Rodin's Galatée, and Three Faunesses is at the origin of the feminine figures of Camille Claudel's wave.

The peak of their love affair among this dynamic and talented woman and the most famous sculptor of France is situated in 1892, in this ruined castle of the XIII th century, boulevard of Italie, in Paris when one called up, " la folie Payen ", where they shared a studio. Camille's major work, this year there, was the pair of bare dancers whom Dayot wanted to see dressing in a drapery. She had agreed to dress them. In the salon of 1893, she exposed this work; The legs of the dancer were surrounded with a complex motive for draperies which did not remove the powerful erotic suggestion of the work. Moreover, Jules Renard, when he saw the pair of bare dancers said simply: " And this group of the Waltz where the couple seems to want to go to bed and to finish dance by sex. "