GIVERNY, France — “My greatest masterpiece,” Claude Monet once said, “is my garden.” Looking at his garden here, I could not argue that this profusion of flowers and ponds was less than a masterpiece, ...

In 1914, Claude Monet was having a bad year. His beloved wife had died, cataracts clouded his vision, toothache dogged him, and Europe had plunged headlong into war. Soon, his son would be stationed ...

Giverny, France – Claude Monet's Gardens are both intimately familiar and overwhelming in their spectacle. The French impressionist master lived in Giverny, France, for half his life, from 1883 to his ...

NOTE: this story and the accompanying photographs originally ran in the Free Press in October 2009. We are reprinting it in honor of the Monet Giverny painting that went on display at the Detroit ...

Home to the impressionist painter Claude Monet for half his life and the inspiration for his most famous works – those ...

"He looked out the window and saw this charming village. So he just got off the train," says Normandy tour guide Brigitte Mueller. "He walked until the first pub, sat down, had a big jug of cider and ...

Monet’s cat has found its way home to the artist’s house in Giverny, in northern France. During the painter’s lifetime, the glazed biscuit pottery cat, made in Japan, spent many years curled up on a ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On his first free day after signing the armistice in November 1918, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau wanted ...

There are worse places to be stuck in a traffic jam. In Claude Monet's gardens in Giverny, Normandy,, on one of the bridges over the water lily pond, visitors wait for the crowd to move forward, ...

After writing and producing a movie and writing two books about Monet’s gardens, entrepreneur Aileen Bordman has added wine to the Monet’s Palate brand. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Dame ...