Oscar Claude Monet is born at 45 Rue Lafitte in Paris, which was the street of the picture dealers. He was the second child of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée. Monet's older brother Léon was born in 1836. Monet was baptised in Paris in 1841.
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Panorama of the Boulevard des Italiens (detail), c.1840
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