...Belle-île-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany, where…
March 1886 CE
...Belle-île-en-Mer, off the coast of Brittany, where he paints The Rocks at Belle-île (1886, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France).
He is visited there by Octave Mirbeau, who this year publishes his tales of the Norman peasantry, Lettres de ma chaumiére (Letters from My Cottage; 1886).
Monet becomes friendly with the critic Gustave Geffroy.