Origins and Birth
The Move to Le Havre
The Schoolboy
Ochard's Student - Early Efforts
His Mother's Death
Caricatures
Meeting Boudin
Grant Applications
Paris
Thomas Couture
The Academic Suisse
From Delacroix to Daubigny
The Brasserie des Martyrs
The Impasse
Conscription
Algeria
The Meeting with Jongkind
Exoneration
Toulmouche
Charles Gleyre and his Academy
Life in the Studio
Chailly-en-Biere
The Demise of the Academy
Honfleur
The Rue de Furstenberg and the First Salon
The Luncheon on the Grass
Camille
Women in the Garden
The Birth of Jean
A Return to his Roots
A Low Point
Madame Gaudibert
Dream and Awakening
La Grenouillere
Marriage
Trouville and the War
London
Zaandam
Rue de l'lsly
Early Days in Argenteuil and the Trip to Rouen
The Port of Argenteuil
Income
The Doncieux Inheritance
Tomorrow's Men
Impression
Making the Best of Hard Times
Great Encounters
The Hotel Drouot
Misfortune in the Rue Le Peletier
Ernest Hoschede
From Pare Monceau to the Chateau de Rottembourg
The Gare Saint-Lazare
Leaving Argenteuil
L'Ile de la Grande Jatte
The Exposition Universelle
The Last Hoschede Sale
Vetheuil: Another New Start
Settling In
As Quick to Hope as to Despair
The Baritone Scapegoat
The Death of Camille
Merciless People, Merciless Winter
Poverty and Hope
Icebreak and Renewal
The "Gaulois" Affair
"I am working furiously"
Lavacourt at the Salon
La Vie Moderne
Flourishing
The Return of Durand-Ruel
Conflicts
Leaving Vetheuil
Poissy and the Collapse of the Union Generale Bank
At "La Renommee des Galettes"
From the Reichshoffen Panorama to the Pourville Seascapes
"Will you like what I am bringing back?"
From Euphoria to Despair
Provisional Reckonings and a Further Trip
The Hotel Blanquet at Etretat
"The Fiasco of My Exhibition"
Somewhere Permanent to Live
Giverny
Bordighera
Monsieur Moreno, "A Veritable Marquis de Carabas"
Bordighera to Menton
New Difficulties
Octave Mirbeau
From the Lathuille Banquet to the International Exhibition
The Life of a Landscape Artist
The Manneporte
"Yesterday's Monet is Dead"
Zola's L'OEuvre
Young Woman with a Parasol
Belle-ile, Russell and Poly
"Once I get started, nothing stops me"
Gustave Geffroy
The Chateau de la Pinede
The Whole Gang
Theo van Gogh's Mezzanine and the Giverny Studio
Anecdote versus Fact
The First Grainstacks
Chez Maurice Rollinat
"If Flaubert had been a Painter"
"For ever Monet! For ever Rodin!"
Homage to the Memory of Edouard Manet
Monet as a Teacher
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 Marriages
The Hotel de Ville Affair
A Pond to Make, A Cathedral to Paint
The New World, The Old World
Legacies, Sales and Added Value
Camondo, Signac and Cezanne
Sandviken near Christiania
As if in Japan
"Cathedral Revolution"
Monet and the Environment
Returns and Repetitions
"So all of them are Manets, all Monets, all Pissarros"
The Henri Vever Sale
Leon Gerome
Maurice Guillemot, an Inspired Reporter
Zola's Admirable Courage
Boredom or New Start
"The Paganini of the Rainbow"
"So much pain and heartache"
A "Complete and Unanimous" Success
Apotheosis or Decline?
The First Series of Japanese Bridges
The First London Bridge Pictures
The Dawn of the 20th Century
"I am a Complete Imbecile"
London Society
The Centennial Exhibition
The Water-Lily Pond
"This is not a country where you can finish a picture"
The Meadow
Farewell to Vetheuil
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
A Pond of Light
Delicate Comparisons [...]