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Name of the female historic character
Lee Miller
 

Daniel Mato Gómez, Sara Pazos Barreiro · 26 febrero 2018 07:44


Name of the male historic character
Man Ray

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Lee Miller was born on April 23, 1907 in Poughkeepsie.
in 1929 she moved to Paris with the intention of becoming an apprentice to Man Ray
She opened her own photo studio.
Sometimes, she was in charge of making fashionable photographs commissioned to Man Ray for that he could concentrate on his painting, so many of the photographs taken during this period and attributed to Man Ray were actually taken by Lee Miller.

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Name of the female historic character
Agnodice.
 

Cintia Carbia Mato · 28 febrero 2018 20:08


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Agnodice was a woman from ancient Greece. She was a medical Athenian, midwife and gynecologist, considered the first known gynecologist. She was judged and in response to her judgment happened one of the first known women's revolts in history. She was born into a high society family in Athens. Her desire to become a doctor began when she realized the large number of women that suffered in the childbirth.

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Name of the female historic character
Camille Claudel
 

Adrián Fernández Terán, Xiana Souto Picos · 28 febrero 2018 19:57


Name of the male historic character
Auguste Rodin

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It was precisely his passion for art that led him to know the one who, in his own words, was the woman of his life, Camille Claudel. The young woman became the muse of the artist, whom, however, she did part of the sculptures that Rodin finished and sometimes he got inspiration from Camille's sculptures. Rodin always says that he did the sculptures and not her.
She was also a promising sculptor but it is true that she has gone on to history for being Rodin's mistress and not for her work. At the age of 20 she starts working with Rodin where he was also the one who later would be, in addition to his mentor, his lover.
Rodin married with her but he never planned to leave his wife, just as he did not want to do it with the other "stable" lover he already had. Even the fact that Camille got pregnant made the artist change her mind. She aborted and pressure ended up breaking her relationship.
Camille spent the last few years of her life isolated in the psychiatric of Montdevergues.

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Name of the female historic character
Simone de Beuvoir
 

Candela Martínez Fuentes, David Vila Sampedro · 23 febrero 2018 16:28


Name of the male historic character
Jean-Paul Sarte

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Simone de Beauvoir was a muse of feminism ahead of her time, always trying to appease an overwhelming personality, from her childhood, her father blamed her for not having had a male who carried out the family name.
Simone broke all academic barriers and became one of the brightest minds in France. And to top it off, in his life he comes across another of the brightest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre.
She practices as a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne and maintains a constant relationship. His work is aimed at translating the freedom that personal life had dictated, starting with small texts written during the Second World War and ending with the magnificent work "Los mandarines".
She died on April 14, 1986 and was buried in Montparnasse, next to her beloved Sartre.

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Name of the female historic character
Gala (Elena Ivanovna Diákonova)
 

Andrés Castelo Corral, Lucía Dieste Piñeiro · 27 febrero 2018 17:17


Name of the male historic character
Dalí (Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech)

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