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The Boulevard des Capucines, where the first Impressionist show took place, had been the site of “atrocious violence” in 1871 ...

It was the birth of what came to be known as Impressionism, a title taken (mockingly, in fact) from a painting of sunrise in the harbor of Le Havre by one of the company, the great Claude Monet.