Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (63 page)

24
   Quoted in Philip Ball,
Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour
(London: Viking, 2001), p. 153.

25
   Quoted in Ball,
Bright Earth
, p. 13.

26
   Gimpel,
Diary of an Art Dealer
, p. 59. On Monet’s pigments and techniques in his later career, see Ashok Roy, “Monet’s Palette in the Twentieth Century:
Water-Lilies
and
Irises
,”
National Gallery Technical Bulletin
, vol. 28 (London: National Gallery, 2007), pp. 61–7.

27
   Léonce Bénédite, quoted in Sarah J. Moore,
John White Alexander and the Construction of National Identity: Cosmopolitan American Art, 1880–1915
(Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 2003), p. 49.

28
   WL 2617.

29
   WL 1132.

30
   
L’Art et les Artistes
, December 1905, trans. Terence Maloon in Shackleford et al.,
Monet and the Impressionists
, p. 197.

31
   Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 86.

32
   
La Renaissance de l’art français et des industries de luxe
, January 1920. The friend was Georges Lecomte and the date of this visit the early 1890s.

33
   
Gil Blas
, June 3, 1914.

34
   Monet’s trip to Paris to view the Camondo rooms is confirmed in the
Journal des débats politiques et littéraires
, June 9, 1914.

35
   
La Revue de Paris
, February 1927.

36
   Quoted in Tucker,
Monet in the ’90s
, p. 246.

37
   WL 243.

38
   Quoted in Howard Isham,
Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century
(New York: Peter Lang, 2004) p. 335.

39
   Juliet Wilson-Bareau, ed.,
Manet by Himself: Correspondence and Conversation
(London: MacDonald & Co., 1991), p. 31.

40
   Quoted in Tucker,
Claude Monet: Life and Art
, p. 96.

41
   
Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
, May 1911.

42
   Ambrose Vollard,
Recollections of a Picture Dealer
, trans. Violet M. MacDonald (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2002), p. 103.

43
   
Le Carnet de la semaine
, June 24, 1917.

44
   
Journal des débats politiques et littéraires
, June 9, 1914.

45
   
La Lanterne
, June 17, 1914.

46
   
Gil Blas
, June 16, 1914. Reports of the destruction are taken from
La Lanterne
, June 16, 1914.

47
   
Le Figaro
, June 20, 1913.

48
   
Archives Claude Monet
, p. 152. The novelist was Léon Werth.

49
   WL 2120 and 2121.

50
   WL 2122 and 2123.

51
   Quoted in Edgar Holt,
The Tiger: The Life of Georges Clemenceau, 1841–1929
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976), p. 165.

52
   
L’Homme Libre
, June 25, 1914.

53
   Quoted in Holt,
The Tiger
, p. 164.

54
   See Theodore Zeldin,
France 1848–1945: Politics and Anger
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 397.

55
   Quoted in Harvey Goldberg,
The Life of Jean Jaurès
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1962), pp. 460 and 463.

56
   
Le Figaro
, March 13, 1914. For a full account of the affair, see Edward Berenson,
The Trial of Madame Caillaux
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).

57
   
L’Homme Libre
, 21 July 1914.

58
   For the weather on August 3:
Le Matin
, 4 August 1914.

CHAPTER FIVE: INTO THE UNKNOWN

1
    WL 2128.

2
    WL 3102.

3
    
Le Matin
, August 4, 1914.

4
    
Le Temps
, September 4, 1914.

5
    
The Times
, September 3, 1914.

6
    I am grateful to Claire Maingon for this information (personal email correspondence, December 17, 2014). See Claire Maingon and David Campserveux, “A Museum at War: The Louvre 1914–1921,”
L’Esprit Créateur
, vol. 54 (Summer 2014), pp. 127–40.

7
    WL 2642.

8
    Eugénie Buffet,
Ma vie, mes amours, mes aventures: confidences recueillies par Maurice Hamel
(Paris: Eugène Figuière, 1930), p. 129.

9
    
Le Radical
, November 19, 1914.

10
   Buffet,
Ma vie, mes amours, mes aventures
, pp. 129–30.

11
   WL 2132.

12
   WL 2124.

13
   WL 2126.

14
   On this accident, see WL 1673. Monet describes him as being exempted from service in WL 2128.

15
   WL 2125.

16
   WL 2127.

17
   Octave Mirbeau,
Correspondance Générale
, ed. Pierre Michel with the assistance of Jean-François Nivet (Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme, 2005), vol. 2, p. 260.

18
   
If I Remember Right
, p. 222.

19
   Ibid., p. 227.

20
   Elder,
À Giverny, chez Claude Monet
, loc. 835.

21
   
L’Homme Libre
, August 2, 1913.

22
   Ibid., September 14, 1913.

23
   James Harding,
Sacha Guitry: The Last Boulevardier
(London: Methuen, 1968), p. 51.

24
   
Le Figaro
, October 22, 1932.

25
   
Le Journal
, September 16, 1894.

26
   Mirbeau,
Correspondance Générale
, vol. 2, p. 284.

27
   Ibid., vol. 2, p. 261.

28
   
Le Figaro
, February 17, 1917.

29
   Pierre Michel discusses the faithful dingo as Mirbeau’s “fraternal twin” in his Preface to the Éditions du Boucher version of Mirbeau’s
Dingo
(Société Octave Mirbeau, 2003), p. 6. The edition is available online at:
http://www.leboucher.com/pdf/mirbeau/dingo.pdf
.

30
   Reg Carr,
Anarchism in France: The Case of Octave Mirbeau
(Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1977), p. 147.

31
   
L’Écho de Paris
, March 31, 1891.

32
   Quoted in Pierre Michel and Jean-Francois Nivet,
Octave Mirbeau: l’imprécateur au cœur fidèle
(Paris: Librairie Séguier, 1990), pp. 905–6.

33
   
Sébastien Roch
, preface by Pierre Michel (Angers: Éditions du Boucher, 2003), pp. 268, 269.

34
   
Le Petit Parisien
, August 13, 1915.

35
   Marc Elder,
Deux essais: Octave Mirbeau, Romain Rolland
(Paris: Georges Cres, 1914), p. 22.

36
   Mirbeau,
Correspondance avec Claude Monet
, p. 215.

37
   
Gil Blas
, September 3, 1913.

38
   WL 2124.

39
   Ibid.

40
   See “Le Temps Qu’il Fait” on page 3 of
Le Matin
throughout the month of July 1914.

41
   
Le Matin
, September 14, 1914.

42
   The term “La Grande Guerre” was in use by the early autumn of 1914. See René Mercier, ed.,
La Grande Guerre: La Vie en Lorraine
(Nancy: L’Est Républicain, 1914), dated September 1914; and Gustave Geffroy, ed.,
La Grande Guerre par les artistes
(Paris: Georges Crès, 1914), the first edition of which was issued in November 1914. Also published in the autumn of 1914 was Charles de Preissac’s collection,
Photographies de la Grande Guerre
. The term “La Guerre Mondiale” appears in
Revue Générale Militaire
16, July–December 1914 (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1914), p. 104.

43
   WL 2642.

44
   WL 2129.

45
   WL 2130.

46
   
L’Écho de Paris
, November 8, 1914, lists only four hotels in Paris “open during the war.”

47
   
Le Petit Parisien
, November 10, 1914.

48
   Ibid.

49
   Geffroy,
Claude Monet
, p. 1.

50
   Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly, cited in Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 103.

51
   
L’Art et les Artistes
, December 1905, trans. Terence Maloon in Shackleford et al.,
Monet and the Impressionists
, p. 197.

52
   Geffroy,
Claude Monet
, p. 313.

53
   See Dallas,
At the Heart of a Tiger
, p. 440.

54
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 79.

55
   
L’Homme Libre
, August 2, 1914.

56
   Clemenceau,
Discours de Guerre: Recueillis et publiés par la Société des Amis de Georges Clemenceau
(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968), p. 43.

57
   Quoted in D. R. Watson,
Clemenceau: A Political Biography
(London: Eyre Methuen, 1974), p. 252.

58
   Quoted in Georges Suarez,
La vie orgueilleuse de Clemenceau
(Paris: Éditions P. Saurat, 1987), p. 128.