Name Baptistin Baille | Died 1918 | |
Baptistin Baille was born Jean-Baptiste Baille in France, in 1841 and he died in 1918. He was a professor of optics and acoustics at the Ecole de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris and a close friend of Paul Cezanne, the impressionist artist, and of Emile Zola who would later become a writer.
"Les trois inseparables"
Together, they were known as "les trois inseparables" (the three inseparables). The three boys met when they were at school and often swam together at the River Arc. Cezanne produced numerous paintings of male bathers based on these experiences, which Zola also remembered in his novel, L'Œuvre,
Another friend and classmate was Louis Marguery, future lawyer and writer for vaudeville.
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