On January 4, 1872, Marie-Hortense Ficquet, mistress of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), gave birth to a son, who was named Paul after his father.² They had met several years earlier in Paris, and she had accompanied him to L’Estaque, near his family home in Aix-en-Provence. To avoid being drafted in the Franco-Prussian war, Cézanne lived in a house there that his mother had rented for him in 1870. Although his mother was aware of his relationship with Hortense, it was kept secret from his father, who was unlikely to agree to a marriage to a dowerless girl. Cézanne acknowledged his paternity, and his son's birth was officially registered just as his own birth had been registered 33 years earlier . . . [Full Text of this Article]