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Jules Huret
Jules Huret (; 8 April 1863, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais – 14 February 1915, Paris) was a French journalist, best known for his interviews with writers.
Life.
Born to a family of fishermen, he started work aged 15 at the secretariat of the mayor's office at Boulogne, to support his widowed mother. In 1881 he founded a small literary review and four years later came to Paris, finding work there as an editor of scholarly books on
messenger for his contemporaries, despite being rejected by them. When asked about "Christ on the Mount of Olives" by critic Jules Huret in 1891, a few years after the completion of the work, Guaguin stated that "it is to symbolize the failure of an ideal, the suffering which was both divine and human, Jesus deserted by all of disciples, and his surroundings are as sad as his soul." This work served as a visual representation of Gauguin’s role as the person chosen to sacrifice himself for the