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Villaret has withdrawn to an anchorage off Belle Île, close to the naval base at Brest.
The French fleet is discovered here by the main British Channel Fleet on June 22 and defeated at the ensuing Battle of Groix, losing three ships of the line.
Villaret will be criticized by contemporaries for failing to press the attack on Cornwallis's force, while the British admiral will be praised and rewarded for his defiance in the face of overwhelming French numerical superiority.
The French fleet is discovered here by the main British Channel Fleet on June 22 and defeated at the ensuing Battle of Groix, losing three ships of the line.
Villaret will be criticized by contemporaries for failing to press the attack on Cornwallis's force, while the British admiral will be praised and rewarded for his defiance in the face of overwhelming French numerical superiority.
British forces land off Quiberon on June 27 to aid the revolt in Brittany.
...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.