Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (65 page)

19
   Hoschedé,
Claude Monet
, vol. 1, p. 163.

20
   Hoschedé,
Claude Monet
, vol. 1, p. 81.

21
   
Le Temps
, July 8 and 9, 1915.

22
   
Le Figaro
, July 8, 1915.

23
   See E. L. Hawke’s review of Alfred Angot’s article “Le Canon et La Pluie,”
Monthly Weather Review
, vol. 45 (September 1917), pp. 450–1 (reprinted from Hawke’s review in
Nature
, August 9, 1917); and W. W. Campbell, “The War and the Weather,”
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
, vol. 29 (October 1917), pp. 200–202.

24
   For the dinners in Paris:
Gil Blas
, May 15, 1913. For the eye doctors: Alphant,
Claude Monet
, p. 658. For the stay at Bois-Lurette: WL 2079.

25
   Harding,
Sacha Guitry
, p. 77.

26
   Such is Guitry’s description in the expanded-minute 1952 version of
Ceux de chez nous
. In this later version, done for television in collaboration with Frédéric Rossif, Guitry mistakenly identifies Claude Renoir as his older brother Jean.

27
   Harding,
Sacha Guitry
, p. 77.

28
   For Monet’s aversion to dogs and cats in the garden, see Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 123. For the Japanese chickens, see Elder,
À Giverny, chez Claude Monet
, loc. 677. For Lassis:
L’OuestÉclair
, July 24, 1913.

29
   WL 2158.

30
   WL 2161a.

31
   WL 2160.

32
   WL 2157 and 2158.

33
   
Le Petit Parisien
, November 4, 1915;
L’Homme Libre
, November 5, 1915.

34
   
Le Petit Journal
, March 22, 1915. Photographs and locations of the damage are found in
Le Petit Parisien
, March 22, 1915.

35
   
Le Petit Parisien
, May 2, 1915.

36
   
La Croix
, August 25, 1915.

37
   Ibid., October 2, 1915.

38
   See Watson,
Clemenceau
, p. 256.

39
   WL 2162.

40
   Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 83.

41
   
Le Figaro
, November 24, 1915.

42
   
Le Gaulois
, November 23, 1915.

43
   
Le Figaro
, December 6, 1915.

44
   
Le Petit Parisien
, November 25, 1915.

45
   
Le Figaro
, December 6, 1915.

46
   
Le Figaro
, November 24, 1915.

47
   Quoted in Harding,
Sacha Guitry
, p. 79.

48
   
Le Figaro
, December 10, 1915.

49
   Ibid., June 2, 1915.

50
   
Le Gaulois
, July 23, 1921.

51
   WL 2164 and 2165.

CHAPTER EIGHT: UNDER FIRE

1
    
Le Matin
, January 1, 1916.

2
    Quoted in Alistair Horne,
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
(London: Macmillan, 1962), p. 34.

3
    Quoted in Robert T. Foley,
German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich Von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 189.

4
    
L’Echo de Paris
, January 5, 1915.

5
    
Le Petit Parisien
, March 22, 1915.

6
    Ibid., January 30, 1916.

7
    Quoted in Horne,
The Price of Glory
, p. 76.

8
    Ibid.

9
    
Le Petit Parisien
, March 1, 1916.

10
   Ibid., October 11, 1914, and October 3, 1915.

11
   Helen Davenport Gibbons,
Paris Vistas
(New York: The Century Co., 1919), p. 224.

12
   
Le Petit Journal
, December 23 and 24, 1874.

13
   WL 2172.

14
   WL 2172 and 2173.

15
   WL 2170.

16
   WL 2163.

17
   WL 2177.

18
   
Journal des débats politiques et littéraires
, April 14 and July 24, 1915; WL 2151.

19
   WL 2176.

20
   The
Times
, November 11, 1914.

21
   
Gil Blas
, June 2, 1912.

22
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 253.

23
   
Archives Claude Monet
, p. 137.

24
   
Le Figaro
, November 10, 1916.

25
   WL 2188.

26
   WL 2183.

27
   WL 2180.

28
   Alexander McAdie, “Has the War Affected the Weather?”
Atlantic Monthly
(September 1916), pp. 392–95. McAdie writes that it is a “commonplace of conversation that for some months past the weather conditions have been abnormal” (p. 392). For Monet’s complaints about the weather, see WL 2188.

29
   
Rapports de M. Paul Peytral, Préfet de L’Allier et des Chefs de Service
, part 3:
Rapports des Chefs de Service et Renseignments Divers: Finances
(Moulins: Fudez Frères, 1915), p. 11.

30
   WL 2178.

31
   Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 37.

32
   
Bulletin de la Statistique générale de la France
, vol. 6 (October 1916), pp. 18, 25, and 25.

33
   
Le Matin
, September 19, 1916.

34
   WL 2187.

35
   WL 2178.

36
   WL 2190.

37
   Carr,
Anarchism in France
, p. 164, n. 17.

38
   Quoted in Ruth Butler,
Rodin: The Shapes of Genius
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993), p. 88.

39
   
Le Figaro
, February 23, 1916.

40
   Quoted in Holt,
The Tiger
, p. 174.

41
   
Le Figaro
, February 23, 1916.

42
   WL 2192.

43
   
Le Matin
, August 22, 1916.

44
   Quoted in Horne,
The Price of Glory
, p. 304.

45
   Quoted in Alexander John Watson,
Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006), p. 77.

46
   Henri Barbusse,
Under Fire
, trans. W. Fitzwater Wray (London: Dent, 1988), p. 325. The novel was first published in Wray’s English translation in 1917.

47
   WL 2182 and 2184.

48
   
Le Figaro
, November 10, 1916.

49
   
Législation de la guerre de 1914–1916: Lois, décrets, arrêtés ministériels et circulaires ministérielles
, vol. 5 (Paris: Librairie Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1917), p. 267.

50
   Martet,
Clemenceau
, p. 223.

51
   Quoted in
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 19.

52
   Quoted in Albert E. Elsen and Rosalyn Frankel Jamison,
Rodin’s Art: The Rodin Collection of Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts at Stanford University
, ed. Bernard Barryte (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 480.

53
   
Le Gaulois
, March 11, 1917.

54
   Quoted in Mark Levitch, “The Great War Re-remembered: The Fragmentation of the World’s Largest Painting,” in Nicholas J. Saunders, ed.,
Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War
(London: Routledge, 2004), p. 96.

55
   WL 2200.

56
   WL 2191.

57
   WL 2192.

58
   WL 2201.

CHAPTER NINE: A STATE OF IMPOSSIBLE ANXIETY

1
    WL 2205.

2
    
Gil Blas
, October 17, 1905. It is in this review that Vauxcelles christens Matisse, Derain et al. as the
fauves
.

3
    M. J. Péladan, quoted in Russell T. Clement, ed.,
Les Fauves: A Sourcebook
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994), p. xxix.

4
    
Archives Claude Monet
, p. 105.

5
    Quoted in John O’Brian,
Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), p. 6.

6
    
L’Art et les Artistes
, December 1905, trans. Terence Maloon in Shackleford et al.,
Monet and the Impressionists
, p. 198.

7
    Quoted in Hilary Spurling,
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869–1908
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998), p. 126.

8
    Quoted in Spurling,
The Unknown Matisse
, p. 133.

9
    Quoted in Benjamin, “The Decorative Landscape,” p. 304.

10
   
Matisse on Art
, ed. Jack Flam (Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 39.