Monet's house and gardens in Giverny, three hours' drive from the port of Cherbourg, are widely celebrated. Here, in the Seine Valley, 90km north-west of Paris, Claude Monet, one of the founders of ...

Every winter, the head gardener at Claude Monet’s garden in the tiny French village of Giverny sits down to a stack of seed catalogs—and braces for disappointment. Jean-Marie Avisard knows he must ...

In 1914, Claude Monet was having a bad year. His beloved wife had died, cataracts clouded his vision, toothache dogged him, and Europe had plunged headlong into war. Soon, his son would be stationed ...