Chas, how did you know that???
Turns out we can thank the lottery for Claude Monet’s wonderful impressionist paintings. Monet won 100,000 francs in the 1891 state lottery (those were the days when a franc was a franc), making him financially independent. That allowed him to roam the countryside and create paintings based on what he saw
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love the photos. looks like good weather!
as for Monet and the lottery .. ah, the range of unimportant trivia i know about an eclectic miscellany of things .. who knows why? I just remember stuff. Helped me a bunch in history classes in school!
what I'm wondering is will this tidbit of trivia help me beat my husband at trivial pursuit?
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