I was on a quest to find the landscape that had inspired the painter Claude Monet, a landscape which, unlike his Rouen, Paris and London, which he painted many times, remains relatively unknown.
Monet was captivated by the dashing rapids and angular, heather-laden granite gorge where two sections of the Creuse River converge and spent days over the course of several visits that year clambering along the often-slippery rocks, accompanied by a farmhand who carried his canvases, paints and easel.
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