"I've got it.. ..the Saint Lazare [station in Paris, then]. I'll show it just as the trains are starting, with smoke from the engines so thick you can hardly see a thing. It's a fascinating sight, a real dream. I'll get them [the station office] to delay the train for Rouen for half an hour. The light will be better then."
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Claude Monet (1877) his remark to Renoir (who reacted later: 'you are mad', but indeed all the trains were haled and the engines were crammed with coals so as to give all the smoke, like Monet wanted in his series of paintings!) in January 1877; as quoted in The private live of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 173
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