Black Water Lilies

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In the following pages, the descriptions of Giverny are as exact as possible. The places exist, whether it’s the Hôtel Baudy, the Ru and the Epte, the Chennevières mill, the school in Giverny, the church of Sainte-Radegonde and its cemetery, Rue Claude Monet, the Chemin du Roy, Nettles Island, or, of course, Monet’s house and the water-lily pond. The same can be said of locations in the neighboring area, such as the museum in Vernon, the art museum in Rouen, the hamlet of Cocherel.

The information about Claude Monet’s life, his works, and his heirs is authentic. That is also the case for the other Impressionist painters mentioned, notably Theodore Robinson and Eugène Murer—however, the Robinson Foundation and the International Young Painters Challenge are my own invention.

The cited thefts of artworks come from real news stories.

All the rest, I have imagined.

Three women lived in a village.

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