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The Rodin Museum, located in an early 18th-century Biron Hotel, which he had occupied since 1908. It was created in 1919, by the initiative of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), himself.
In 1916, Rodin, weakened by illness, decides to donate to the French State, his works, collections, and library, letters and manuscripts.
At the end of his life, he also donatedto the French State, his residence to Meudon, the Villa des Brillants, which is today an annex of the museum.
Through these two sites, the Biron Hotel in Paris and the Villa des Brillants in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), the museum will be entirely dedicated to the work of Auguste Rodin , one of the greatest sculptors of all time and Camille Claudel (collaborator, mistress and muse of the artist), containing a collection of nearly 6,800 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 10,000 old photographs and 8,000 other works of art objects.
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