Artist's Palette

The French and their love affair with art - a brief history

When one thinks of France, one thinks of art. A trip to France would not be complete without a visit to the Musee du Louvre in Paris or to another found throughout the country.

Almost on every street corner you can find an artist to paint you a picture and it’s this very simple love of art that makes the French so proud of their culture and so endearing to the rest of us.

Even if you know nothing about art, the names Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eugene Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Henri Matisee are so familiar they feel like long lost friends. These artists of the 1800s and 1900s are so a part

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