![]() ![]() ![]() Renard, who was only sixteen when she moved into the Renoirs’ home in Paris, spent years with Jean-taking him to the movies and to puppet shows, playing with toys and strolling the winding streets of Montmartre and the seaside in Cagnes-sur-Mer, where Pierre-Auguste moved the family. As for the actual parenting, that was mostly left to the family’s nanny, Gabrielle Renard. Whenever Pierre-Auguste was around the house, he demanded to be called patron-“the boss”-rather than the more typical papa, and Jean grew to view him more as a boarding school headmaster than as a father. ![]() The Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir rarely spent time with his second son, Jean. Jean Renoir, still from La Chienne, 1931 © Les Films du Jeudi ![]()
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