Editing Paul Claudel (section)

==Family==
While in China, Claudel had a long affair with Rosalie Vetch née Ścibor-Rylska (1871–1951), wife of Francis Vetch (1862–1944) and granddaughter of [[Hamilton Vetch]]. Claudel knew Francis Vetch through his diplomatic work, and had met Rosalie on a sea voyage out from [[Marseille]] to [[Hong Kong]] in 1900. She had four children, and was pregnant with Claudel's child when the affair ended in February 1905. Francis Vetch and Claudel had caught up with Rosalie at a railway station on the German border in 1905, a meeting at which Rosalie signalled that her relationship with Claudel was over.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Keith |title=Henri Vetch (1898-1978): Soldier, Bookseller And Publisher |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch |date=2006 |volume=46 |page=118 |jstor=23890010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23890010 |issn=1991-7295}}</ref> She married in 1907 Jan Willem Lintner.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Keith |title=Henri Vetch (1898-1978): Soldier, Bookseller And Publisher |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch |date=2006 |volume=46 |pages=103 and 111|jstor=23890010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23890010 |issn=1991-7295}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Castel |first1=Yves |title=Histoire de familles des Mascareignes |year=2021 |page=171 |publisher=TheBookEdition |isbn=9782957766802 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LW5HEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA171}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-theatre-et-balagan/20110608.RUE1298/la-pleiade-leve-le-voile-sur-rosalie-grand-amour-de-claudel.html | title=La Pléiade lève le voile sur Rosalie, grand amour de Claudel | date=2017-01-24 | first=Jean-Pierre|last=Thibaudat | publisher=[[L'Obs]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508213426/https://www.nouvelobs.com/rue89/rue89-theatre-et-balagan/20110608.RUE1298/la-pleiade-leve-le-voile-sur-rosalie-grand-amour-de-claudel.html | archive-date=2021-05-08 | access-date=2021-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Claudel |first1=Paul |title=Partage de Midi. Crisi di Mezzogiorno |date=2 July 2014 |publisher=EDUCatt - Ente per il diritto allo studio universitario dell'Università Cattolica |isbn=978-88-6780-435-1 |pages=12 and 13 notes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbTvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=it}}</ref> Louise Marie Agnes Vetch (1905–1996), born in Brussels, was Claudel's daughter by Rosalie.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Stevens |first1=Keith |title=Henri Vetch (1898-1978): Soldier, Bookseller And Publisher |journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch |date=2006 |volume=46 |pages=110 and 113 |jstor=23890010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23890010 |issn=1991-7295}}</ref>

Claudel married on 15 March 1906 Reine Sainte-Marie Perrin (1880–1973). She was the daughter of {{Ill|Louis Sainte-Marie Perrin|fr}} (1835–1917), an architect from [[Lyon]] known for completing the [[Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière]].<ref>Ayral-Clause, Odile, ''Camille Claudel, A Life'', pp. 167–168</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gide |first1=André |last2=Schlumberger |first2=Jean |title=Correspondance: 1901-1950 |date=1993 |publisher=Gallimard |isbn=978-2-07-073122-0 |page=226 |language=fr}}</ref> They had two sons and three daughters.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kohler |first1=Sue A. |title=Sixteenth Street Architecture |date=1978 |publisher=Commission of Fine Arts |page=443 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3QUGMtW3dIC&pg=PA443 |language=en}}</ref>

===Treatment of his sister Camille===
[[File:Camille Claudel.jpg|thumb|[[Camille Claudel]]]]
Claudel committed his sister [[Camille Claudel|Camille]] to a psychiatric hospital in March 1913, where she remained for the last 30 years of her life, visiting her seven times in those 30 years.<ref>Ayral-Clause, Odile, p. 217, 222, 225, 242, 245, 250</ref> Records show that while she did have mental lapses, she was clear-headed while working on her art. Doctors tried to convince the family that she need not be in the institution, but still they kept her there. 

The story forms the subject of a 2004 novel by [[Michèle Desbordes]], ''La Robe bleue'', ''The Blue Dress''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.liberation.fr/livres/2004/04/01/folle-claudel_474659/ | title=Folle Claudel | date=2004-04-01 | author=[[Jean-Baptiste Harang]] | publisher=[[Libération]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508194737/https://www.liberation.fr/livres/2004/04/01/folle-claudel_474659/ | archive-date=2021-05-08 | access-date=2021-05-08}}</ref> [[Jean-Charles de Castelbajac]] wrote a song "La soeur de Paul" for [[Mareva Galanter]], 2010.