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Claude Monet



Claude Monet was born on November 14th, 1840, in Paris and died of lung cancer on December 6th,1926. Monet spent most of his life living in France, where he painted some of his more famous works, though he often lived abroad to escape war and to learn new techniques. Father to two children, Claude married Camille Concieux in 1868, and following her death he remarried to Alice Hoschede in 1892. Monet and Hoschede, having already 6 children of her own, settled their large family in Giverny, a commune in the northern part of France, where Claude focused on his "series" paintings and became wealthy through selling his work to local art dealers. Spending the later years of his life traveling and painting, Monet eventually developed cataracts which caused many of his following paintings to have a reddish tint to them. At age 86 he developed lung cancer, and promptly died late in 1926. His death was celebrated with a small funeral precession, and his home in Giverny is now a famous attraction celebrating his life and work.

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