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Breton, Jules
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Breton, Jules
(
b
Courrières, Pas-de-Calais, 1 May 1827;
d
Paris, 5 July 1906). French painter, the leading successor to
Millet
in the vogue for pictures of peasant life. His many admirers included
van Gogh
, who at the outset of his career walked about 80 km (50 miles) from the Borinage region of Belgium to Breton's home ...
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