Editing Paul Gauguin (section)

=== Education and first job ===
After attending a couple of local schools, Gauguin was sent to the prestigious Catholic boarding school Petit Séminaire de [[La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin]].{{sfn|Gayford|2006|pp=99–100}} He spent three years at the school. At the age of 14, he entered the Loriol Institute in Paris, a naval preparatory school, before returning to Orléans to take his final year at the Lycée Jeanne D'Arc. Gauguin signed on as a [[maritime pilot|pilot]]'s assistant in the [[merchant marine]]. Three years later, he joined the French navy in which he served for two years.{{sfn|Mathews|2001|p=14}} His mother died on 7 July 1867, but he did not learn of it for several months until a letter from his sister Marie caught up with him in India.{{sfn|Mathews|2001|p=18}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Perruchot |first=Henri |title=La Vie de Gauguin |year=1961 |publisher=[[Hachette (publisher)|Hachette]] |language=fr |asin=B0014QL91I |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxpAAAAAIAAJ}}</ref>

In 1871, Gauguin returned to Paris where he secured a job as a stockbroker. A close family friend, [[Gustave Arosa]], got him a job at the [[Paris Bourse]]; Gauguin was 23. He became a successful Parisian businessman and remained one for the next 11 years. In 1879 he was earning 30,000 [[French franc|francs]] a year (about $145,000 in 2019 US dollars) as a stockbroker, and as much again in his dealings in the art market.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=Don |title=The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art |date=2010 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-0-230-62059-9 |page=49 |url={{Google books|ORHdSqeDPlsC|title|page=49|plainurl=yes}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market |url=http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/business/ |website=getty.edu |publisher=[[J. Paul Getty Museum]] |date=2004}}</ref> But in 1882 [[Paris Bourse crash of 1882|the Paris stock market crashed]] and the art market contracted. Gauguin's earnings deteriorated sharply and he eventually decided to pursue painting full-time.{{sfn|Thomson|1987|p=27}}{{sfn|Mathews|2001|pp=48–49}}