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Excerpt from The Letters of Paul Gauguin: To Georges Daniel De Monfreid
A decade ago I began to live in the lonely places in the South Seas where Gauguin passed the last dozen years of his tortured life, and where he died in wretchedness. I had as neighbors both in Tahiti and in the Marquesas Islands men and women, white, native and Chinese, who had known the painter. F ew of them knew anything of his fame or his career, and so they spoke of him only as a strange artist, a friend, an enemy, or a lost soul. He had been dead ten years when I came upon his former habitat, yet his servant recalled him vaguely, his mistress apathetically, the trader admiringly, one missionary factually, and an other bitterly, and a chief with regret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
