"In 1911 the State bought the property, with the south part lopped off and assigned to the Lycée Victor Duruy, while Rodin hatched The plan of handing over everything he had collected to the State on coodition that a museum was devoted to him at the Hôtel Biron. Claude Monet, Octave Mirbeau, Raymond Poincaré, Georges Clemenceau and Étienne Clémentel were among those supporting the scheme, but it was still difficult to bring to a successful conclusion because even at that period the sculptor’s art was still so little understood, or even regarded as the work of the devil. The three donations were approved by a vote in Parliament and made officical on 24 December 1916, with Rodin giving the State all his collections, his photographs and archives, as well as aIl his work - sculptures and drawings - along with the proprietary rights that went with it. As Rodin died on 17 November 1917 he did not see the materialization of his final dream, the opening of his own museum, which took place in 1919."
