Le Cannet
Hillside town above the bay where painter Pierre Bonnard spent his final two decades.
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This guide to Le Cannet, in the hills above Cannes, follows the painter Pierre Bonnard through the war years at his house Le Bosquet, after the death of the woman he had painted for half a century. It turns on a letter from the registrar and a single sheet of drawing paper. Along the way you meet Marthe, the model who called herself an orphan of Italian nobility, and the truth about who she really was.
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