The Grand Palais in Paris, France has just opened the biggest Monet show in the last several decades. The collection features 160 paintings of Monet’s most famous works and is being produced partially in order to restore Monet’s original status in history. Paris officials, including President Nicholas Sarkozy, have turned the event into a national celebration. The President told the New York Times that this collection is an “unmistakable emblem of the international influence of French culture.”
