Volume 1. Monet, or, The triumph of Impressionism : Origins and birth
From Delacroix to Daubigny
The Brasserie des Martyrs
The meeting with Jongkind
Charles Gleyre and his Academy
The demise of the Academy
The Rue de Furstenberg and the first Salon
The luncheon on the grass
Early days in Argenteuil and the trip to Rouen
Making the best of hard times
Misfortune in the Rue Le Peletier
From Parc Monceau to the Ćhteau de Rottembourg
The Exposition Universelle
̌Vtheuil : another new start
As quick to hope as to despair
Merciless people, merciless winter
The return of Durand-Ruel
Poissy and the collapse of the Union Ǧňrale Bank
At "La Renom̌me des Galettes"
From the Reichshoffen panorama to the Pourville seascapes
"Will you like what I am bringing back?"
Provisional reckonings and a further trip
The ̥Htel Blanquet at ⁹tretat
"The fiasco of my exhibition"
Somewhere permanent to live
Monsieur Moreno, "a veritable Marquis de Carabas"
From the Lathuille Banquet to the International Exhibition
The life of a landscape artist
"Yesterday's Monet is dead"
Young woman with a parasol
Belle-Ile, Russell and Poly
"Once I get started, nothing stops me"
Theo van Gogh's mezzanine and the Giverny Studio
"If Flaubert had been a painter"
"For ever Monet! for ever Rodin!"
Homage to the memeory of Edouard Manet
Antonin Proust under fire
Gustave Larroumet besieged
"Don't make a martyr of yourself by desiring the impossible"
Such a beautiful landscape
Variations on a theme : The grainstacks
Requiem for a man of letters
From The grainstacks to The poplars
The blue, pink, or yellow cathedral
The ̥Htel de Ville affair
A pond to make, a cathedral to paint
The New World, the Old World
Legacies, sales, and added value
Camondo, Sugnac and Čzanne
Sandviken near Christiania
Monet and the environment
"So all of them are Manets, all Monets, all Pisarros"
Maurice Guillemot, an inspired reporter
"The Paganini of the rainbow"
"So much pain and heartache"
A "complete and unanimous" success
The first series of Japanese bridges
The first London Bridge pictures
The dawn of the 20th century
"I am a complete imbecile"
The Centenniel Exhibition
"This is not a country where you can finish a picture"
Towards a subjective Impressionism
"Study and research, which will prove fruitful"
Enthusiasm to order or spontaneous admiration?
"Gardening and painting apart, I'm no good at anything"
London : the Entente Cordiale
Louis Vauxcelles at Giverny
Delicate comparisons and a well-orchestrated campaign
The Water Lilies Exhibition in 1909
From decoration to abstraction
"I am completely fed up with painting..."
"I feel I am undertaking something very important"
A studio constructed in the midst of war
The grand decorations before all else
From the ̥Htel Biron to the Orangerie
The donation is formalised
Preparing for the cataract operation
An operation in three stages
The patience of Dr. Coutela
"As if he had all eternity before him"
From Charles Cotela to Jacques Mawas
The donation under threat
"Monet...may still get back in the saddle"
"A disease which cannot be cured"
