The Soul of Provence: The Life and Legacy of Paul Camille Guigou Paul Camille Guigou remains one of the most poignant figures of the nineteenth-century French landscape tradition, a painter whose brush captured the fleeting light of Provence even as his own life was cut tragically short. Born in 1834 to a prosperous family of farmers and notaries in Villars-sur-Vaucluse, Guigou possessed an innate, ancestral connection to the rugged beauty of the French countryside. While his formal education began in the quiet surroundings of Apt, it was his time in Marseille under the tutelage of Émile Lou…