CHARPENTIER, Georges
1846-1905

At the age of 25 he inherited a successful publishing house and enhanced its reputation by publishing the naturalist novels of Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, and Goncourt. From the 1870's he and his wife Marguerite (nee Lemonnier) held a celebrated Salon and collected the impressionists, particularly Renoir. Mme Charpentier, whose younger sister Isabelle became one of Manet's favourite models, launched the magazine La Vie moderne in 1879.