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MONET, RENOIR AND BAZILLE

Culture · Sunday, November 8 · 09:00 · Montpellier

17 Rue Ferdinand Fabre

You know Impressionism... but do you know the friendship that gave birth to it? Paris, 1862. Three young painters cross paths. They are Monet, Renoir and Bazille. They are barely 20, not yet famous. They seek a language, a place in a world that looks at them askance. Around them: an era in turmoil. Manet provokes, Baudelaire disturbs, Zola observes, and the academies lock down. In trying to reconcile his passion for painting with his family's expectations, Bazille finds himself at the heart of a movement that does not yet bear the name imp...