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About the book >.>.> Oscar Claude Monet second son of grocer Claude Adolphe Monet and his wife Louise Justine Aubr?e was born on 14 November 1840 at 45 Rue Lafitte Paris. France at that time was enjoying a period of relative economic and political stability under its Citizen King Louis Philippe (1773-1850). His July Monarchy as it was known lasted from 1830 to 1848 and produced in its first decade in particular outstanding achievements in French art which reflected the liberal spirit of the times. Famous authors included Honor? de Balzac and Victor Hugo. In line with the growing influence of the middle classes artistic trends were increasingly being set by bourgeois taste a factor which precipi- tated the landscape painting of the Barbizon School. But this same decade was also to see the birth of almost every member of the future group of Impressionists. Camille Pisarro was born in 1830 Edouard Manet in 1832 Edgar Degas in 1834 Paul C?zanne and Alfred Sisley in 1839 and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1841. The mid-forties brought a serious economic crisis and apparently a fall in trade for Monet’s father Adolphe for the family decided to move to Le Havre on the coast of Normandy where Monet’s father joined his brother-in-law Jacques Lecadre in his successful wholesale business. The prospects for the future looked healthy. The Lecadres were locally respected and pros- perous. In addition to a large house in the town they also owned a summer residence not far from the seaside resort of Sainte- Adresse. Monet later recalled that his childhood in Le Havre where the Seine flows into the Atlantic set a pattern for the rest of his life: ‘The Seine. I have painted it all my life at all hours of the day at all times of the year from Paris to the sea Argenteuil Poissy V?theuil Giverny Rouen Le Havre. (SP)