Giverny was then a small community of some three hundred inhabitants, nestled in the Seine valley, forty miles north-west of Paris. And at forty-two he was still in financial difficulty despite being acknowledged as a leader of the Impressionist painting movement, his reputation was confined to a small circle. Since setting out to become a painter he had been plagued by poverty and debt. Monet was a widower, in search of a home for his extended family: his lover, Alice Hoschedé, her six children, and his own two sons. His train made an unscheduled stop to let the wedding party on board and, enchanted by what he saw from the window, Monet disembarked. It was thanks to a wedding that Claude Monet discovered the house at Giverny in the spring of 1883.
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