Raymond Duchamp-Villon was a French

France

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 sculptor.

Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville

Damville

Damville is a commune in the Eure Department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Population:-History:Damville was important for its situation on the Norman border.The fortress of Damville was built in 1035...

, Eure

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, in the Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 region of France

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, the second son of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. Of the six Duchamp children, four would become successful artists. He was the brother of:

• Jacques Villon
  Jacques Villon
  Jacques Villon was a French cubist painter and printmaker.-Early life:Born Gaston Emile Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Haute-Normandie region of France, he came from a prosperous and artistically inclined family...
  
   (1875–1963), painter, printmaker
• Marcel Duchamp
  Marcel Duchamp
  Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
  
    (1887–1968), painter, sculptor and author
• Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti
  Suzanne Duchamp
  Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti was a French Dadaist painter. Born in Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie Region of France, she was the fourth of six children born into the artistic family of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp.Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti was the younger sister of:*Jacques Villon née...
  
   (1889–1963), painter

From 1894 to 1898 Raymond Duchamp-Villon lived in the Montmartre

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 Quarter of Paris

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 with his brother Jacques and studied medicine at the Sorbonne

University of Paris

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