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Paris is hosting the first ever French retrospective in France of paintings by impressionist Berthe Morisot. She was one of the only female painters to break through in the male-dominated 19th century. She was a protégée of Edouard Manet and was married to his brother. But Morisot actually influenced Manet - she persuaded him to start painting outdoors, for example.

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