Joachim Gasquet was a French writer, poet, and art critic born in Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence

Aix , or Aix-en-Provence to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a city-commune in southern France, some north of Marseille. It is in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, in the département of Bouches-du-Rhône, of which it is a subprefecture. The population of Aix is...

, Bouches-du-Rhône

Bouches-du-Rhône

Bouches-du-Rhône is a department in the south of France named after the mouth of the Rhône River. It is the most populous department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Its INSEE and postal code is 13.-History of the department:...

. He is best known for his writing about the artists of his era, particularly Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

, who was his friend. His 1921 book Cézanne is a testament to the life of the artist, whose work Gasquet had known since an 1895 exhibition at Aix-en-Provence.

He married Marie Gasquet

Marie Gasquet

Marie Gasquet , was a French regionist writer born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône. She was hailed as queen of the Felibrige in 1892.-Biography:...

in 1896.