Manet - the Unrecognized, the Aristocrat, the Great Bohemian

He was born on January 23, 1832 in Paris, as the first-born son of a ministerial clerk and the daughter of a diplomat. An illustrious background that suggested a career in the upper echelons of power, but the son of Auguste Manet and Eugenie Fournier resisted parental opinion and his…

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