I interrupted the Baron in order to observe that my personal feelings could not be of any consequence but as a matter of fact I was not Germanophobe, I was Anglomane, it was natural that you should wish to know from your observer on the spot what was the feeling in France in regard to the critical state in which the negotiations between the French and German Governments then were.

But what was even more important to Monet’s eventual success in devising landscape images that attracted music-modeled appreciation like Silvestre’s is the fact that the melomanes among the younger painters of the 1860s had not produced anything like a consistent painting practice modeled on music.

We can put you up for the night.

Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.