

As a studious student, he found it difficult to adapt to the atmosphere of the city when his family moved to Paris in 1881. His need for freedom and emancipation was reinforced. He dreamed of traveling the world and embraced the diplomatic career while pursuing his literary career.
He wrote numerous plays, poetry and literary essays.
His art was enriched by his stays abroad in his posts as consul, then ambassador whether in China, Japan, New York, Brazil and Europe.
However, his travels will not make him forget his native land, the Tardenois, a land to which he remains deeply attached. Its landscapes, its villages and its legends are found everywhere in his work. We can notably cite his play L’annonce faite à Marie, which is anchored in this place he loves so much.
Despite his talent and his love for literature, Paul Claudel refuses to live off his artistic side, which is why he becomes a diplomat, ensuring himself a fixed income. The downfall of several artists and especially his sister, will traumatize him.
While Paul, after a sentimental drama founded a family, (he would have five children), Camille struggled with loneliness after her separation from Rodin, financial difficulties, illness.
In 1913, on medical advice she was committed to a psychiatric hospital until her death. However and despite the confinement of his sister, Paul will always remain close and faithful to her. One often finds, hidden somewhere, the shadow of Camille in his writings.