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This is a post for Paris in July hosted by Tamara, Karen, Adria&Vicki, Bellezza and Nicole. Let's see what happened in Paris, France during the year 1927 and what Janet Flanner has to say about it. Claude Monet (1840-1926) "The death of Claude Monet, first Impressionist, marks the end of a period. He was what remained of 19th century art. He outlived all of his intellectual generation except Georges Clemenceau, in whose presence he died, as if to use all his friendly contemporaries to the bitter end. It was in Zola's presence that Monet first saw Manet's works. Manet inspired Monet; Monet inspired Zola, then a poor journalist. ... It was the greatest aesthetic and financial blunder critics ever made, if one excepts the one they made a few years later in regard to Cézanne and would probably make today if another great innovator appeared. But the public and the government suffered most. In 1921 the Beaux-Arts paid through its nose for Monet's 'Les F...