Word: charitible
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Except for a few artist friends, no one thought much of his work. The one exhibition of his paintings was a fiasco. But when he finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...