Posts Tagged ‘Georges Clemenceau’
Remembering Painter and Gardener Claude Monet: His Funeral, His Friend, and His Love of Nature
“Claude said, ‘I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.'” December 5, 1926 On this day, the impressionist painter Claude Monet died at 86. Claude had insisted on a simple funeral, and as such, his coffin was draped with plain black cloth. But his…
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