which was suffused with his love of all living things. He retained in him some residue of the spell-binding power of the spirit that moves over the face of the waters in the opening pages of the Book of Genesis.
Henri-Julien-Felix Rousseau was born in the Place Hardy. Laval, on 20 May 1844 - not 21 May which is the date of the birth certificate. His father was a tinsmith and his mother the daughter of an officer. Rousseau himself joined the army when he was eighteen and was assigned to the band of the 52nd Infantry, playing the saxophone. It is possible that he took part in the Mexican campaign, but Rousseau's daughter, Madame Julia Bernard, cannot be certain. Therefore we do not know if his visions of the virgin forest are memories or purely imaginary. In 1869 Henri Rousseau married a penniless girl called Clemente Boitard, the daughter of a furniture-seller from Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He found a job as a bailiff's clerk but was too tender-hearted to spend his time listing the pos-sessions of poor people who had been declared bankrupt. Through a relative of his wife who was an inspector in the Paris, municipal customs service he obtained a post as a customs officer—hence his popular name " Le Douanier ". He worked first at the Pont de la Tournelle, later at a check-point on the town walls and at the Porte de Meudon. He is described in Gil Bias as " keeping watch on the barges moored by the Quai du Louvre ", which would tend to be confirmed by two of the Douanier's drawings (in the Max Weber Collection, New York) ; one is of the Quai d'Auteuil, the other of the " patache d'aval ", the small riverside customs house on the same quay. From these various
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which was suffused with his love of all living things. He retained in him some residue of the spell-binding power of the spirit that moves over the face of the waters in the opening pages of the Book of Genesis.
Henri-Julien-Felix Rousseau was born in the Place Hardy. Laval, on 20 May 1844 - not 21 May which is the date of the birth certificate. His father was a tinsmith and his mother the daughter of an officer. Rousseau himself joined the army when he was eighteen and was assigned to the band of the 52nd Infantry, playing the saxophone. It is possible that he took part in the Mexican campaign, but Rousseau's daughter, Madame Julia Bernard, cannot be certain. Therefore we do not know if his visions of the virgin forest are memories or purely imaginary. In 1869 Henri Rousseau married a penniless girl called Clemente Boitard, the daughter of a furniture-seller from Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He found a job as a bailiff's clerk but was too tender-hearted to spend his time listing the pos-sessions of poor people who had been declared bankrupt. Through a relative of his wife who was an inspector in the Paris, municipal customs service he obtained a post as a customs officer—hence his popular name " Le Douanier ". He worked first at the Pont de la Tournelle, later at a check-point on the town walls and at the Porte de Meudon. He is described in Gil Bias as " keeping watch on the barges moored by the Quai du Louvre ", which would tend to be confirmed by two of the Douanier's drawings (in the Max Weber Collection, New York) ; one is of the Quai d'Auteuil, the other of the " patache d'aval ", the small riverside customs house on the same quay. From these various
• ol' eit,ti. r,4e. ,alts Ow. Of tvC re°00caoi'ill oc.ol. 01 resift-00o 40f toe C ° t0 0( 11411 5 1$5;a4 an 1.200 Pc` to 1 beeLlinec sanshe c tings .-vet g/108 . a n - ere in tianig Pendan. tegtilar of 1891 exotic mote Felix " Pe° Out. prey paint at th (wh' Odi acq anc wa Mi Ent in be yt
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