Just thought i would post a picture of one of my favourite paintings, the name of which has been spinning through my head for the last few weeks, it's like a taunt, once you hear it you never forget it.
Gauguin had been a student at the Petit Seminaire de La Chapelle Saint Mesmin, just outside of Orleans from the age of eleven to the age of sixteen. His subjects there included a class in Catholic liturgy; the teacher for this class was the Bishop of Orleans Felix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup. Dupanloup had devised his own catechism to be lodged in the minds of the young schoolboys, and to lead them towards proper spiritual reflections on the nature of life. The three fundamental questions in this catechism were: "Where does humanity come from?" "Where is it going to?", "How does humanity proceed?"
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