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=== Marriage === [[File:Paul_Gauguin_and_Mette_Sophie_Gad_by_Julie_Laurberg,_1885.JPG|thumb|upright|Gauguin with his wife Mette in [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]], 1885]] In 1873, he married a [[Danes|Danish]] woman, Mette-Sophie Gad (1850–1920). Over the next ten years, they had five children: Émile (1874–1955); Aline (1877–1897); Clovis (1879–1900); [[Jean René Gauguin|Jean René]] (1881–1961); and [[Pola Gauguin|Paul Rollon]] (1883–1961). By 1884, Gauguin had moved with his family to [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]], where he pursued a business career as a [[tarpaulin]] salesman. It was not a success: He could not speak Danish, and the Danes did not want French tarpaulins. Mette became the chief breadwinner, giving French lessons to trainee diplomats. His middle-class family and marriage fell apart after 11 years when Gauguin was driven to paint full-time. He returned to Paris in 1885, after his wife and her family asked him to leave because he had renounced the values they shared.{{clarify|date=February 2015}}{{sfn|Mathews|2001|p=62}}{{sfn|Thomson|1987|p=38}} Gauguin's last physical contact with them was in 1891, and Mette eventually broke with him decisively in 1894.{{sfn|Mathews|2001|p=194}}{{sfn|Mathews|2001|p=210}}{{sfn|Thomson|1987|p=29}}{{sfn|Thomson|1987|p=182}}
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