Childhood friend of ÉmileZola, a thwarted petty bourgeoisie, an artist long misunderstood, an obstinate genius and frankly soup in the dark, Cézanne, in the twilight of his life, once admitted that he dreamed of "dying while painting". 'he almost succeeds, victim of a pulmonary congestion on the roads of Aix-en-Provence, in front of his easel, a whole hundred years ago. A dazzling biography, to read in one go, before climbing the Sainte-Victoire mountain or rushing to the Musée d'Orsay ...