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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Claude Monet
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(1840–1926) The great French impressionist painted almost 100 canvases of the Thames in London, a few in 1870–1 (when he had left France to escape the *Franco-Prussian war) but by far the majority as a result of three visits in the winters of 1899–1901. Many were painted from his room in the *Savoy Hotel, with a view both up and down the river. These superb images are perhaps the only good result of London's notorious *smog. 'What I like most of all in London is the fog', said Monet. 'Without the fog, London would not be a beautiful city.'
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