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Lepic and Degas were friends as young men, with similar interests, and were to co-operate in other ways too. It was Degas who persuaded Lepic to help plan and participate in the first two
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led Lepic to distance himself from them. During this time, he had bought himself a boat and from 1877 paid annual visits to the town of
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Notwithstanding his marriage in 1865 with Joséphine Scévole de Barral, the mother of these daughters, Lepic was later to take the
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