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Authors: Stephanie Cowell

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
S
TEPHANIE
C
OWELL
is the critically acclaimed author of
Marrying Mozart, Nicholas Cooke, The Players: A Novel of the Young Shakespeare
, and
The Physician of London
(winner of a 1996 American Book Award).

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2010 by Stephanie Cowell

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com

CROWN
is a trademark and the Crown colophon is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cowell, Stephanie.
Claude & Camille : a novel of Monet / Stephanie Cowell.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Monet, Claude, 1840–1926—Fiction. 2. Monet, Camille, 1847–1879—Fiction.
3. Painters—France—Fiction. 4. Painters’ spouses—France—Biography.
5. Impressionist artists—France—Fiction. 6. Giverny (France)—Fiction.
I. Title. II. Title: Claude and Camille.
PS3553.O898C63 2010
813′.54—dc22                 2009023383

eISBN: 978-0-307-46323-4

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Table of Contents

Cover

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Title Page

Dedication

Prelude: Giverny 1908

Part One

Chapter 1 - 1857–1861
Chapter 2 - 1861–1862
Chapter 3 - 1862–1864
Interlude: Giverny July 1908

Part Two

Chapter 4 - 1864–1866
Chapter 5 - 1866–1867
Interlude: Giverny August 1908

Part Three

Chapter 6 - 1867
Chapter 7 - 1867–1868
Chapter 8 - 1868
Chapter 9 - 1868–1869
Chapter 10 - 1869
Interlude: Giverny December 1908

Part Four

Chapter 11 - 1869
Chapter 12 - 1870
Chapter 13 - 1870
Interlude: Giverny January 1909

Part Five

Chapter 14 - 1870—1871
Chapter 15 - 1871
Chapter 16 - 1871—1873
Chapter 17 - 1874
Interlude: Giverny April 1909

Part Six

Chapter 18 - 1875
Chapter 19 - 1876
Interlude: Giverny May 1909

Part Seven

Chapter 20 - 1877
Chapter 21 - 1877–1878
Chapter 22 - 1878–1879

Epilogue: Giverny 1909

Historical Notes

Some Paintings Mentioned in or of Interest to This Novel

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Copyright

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