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Honfleur

The Impressionists' Harbour
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Boudin was born here and persuaded the young Monet to paint outside rather than in a studio; the Saint-Siméon farm above the town hosted Boudin, Jongkind, Courbet and Monet through the 1860s, and Impressionism came substantially out of those sessions. The Vieux Bassin's tall slate-fronted houses are the subject they kept returning to.

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