Giverny

- Giverny, is a Norman village with an exceptional story: Claude Monet arrival’s in 1883 was soon followed by a multitude of painters from America. The daily life of the tiny village changed. Barns became studios, the walls at the Angelina and Lucien Baudy Hotel were covered with dozens of paintings.

It was also a time of feasts, masked balls, and dinners held by candlelight and paper lanterns and of course Thanks Giving lunches. The American painters Butler, Hart, were soon to become close friends to Claude Monet. Easels were to be seen all over the fields and the gardens.

It is the artist’s style of living at the end of XIXth century that Claire Joyce describes in her book, and that one can also discover through Jean Moral’s photographs as well as the Impressionist painter’s fabulous daily testimonies. Discover 30 reciepes inspired by Butler’s cookbook and from the menus of the Hotel Baudy.

“One must absolutely make a pilgrimage to Giverny, to this flowered-sanctuary, to have a better understanding of the master, a better grasp of the source of his inspiration and to imagine him still alive among us” Gerald VAN DER KEMP.