Claude Monet

That's a pretty enormous question. How are Madonna and Britney Spears the same and different? How shall I count the ways?

Monet is often credited with actually beginning impressionism (notably with his painting Impression Sunrise -- which by title and by style essentially gave birth to the artistic movement that would take on a similar name). However, Pissarro, 10 years Monet's senior, is often credited with the role of Father of impressionism. He receives this title mainly because of his age and the mentoring role he took among the close-knit group of incredibly famous impressionists and post-impressionsts (such as Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, et cetera) with whom he exchanged a great many ideas on painting.

Monet and Pissarro were interested in similar things both stylistically and conceptually. The goal of the impressionist was to play with the effects of light, form, color, the changing seasons, the hours of the day, and so on. Mainly light. Monet largely painted landscapes, while Pissarro had the important distinction of being the only impressionist painter deeply interested in portraying French peasants (the country folk -- the hard working rural citizens). In contrast, Renoir, for example, was interested in portraying the bourgeois, second class, French citizens who were having a gay old time in the big cities.

There are litterally thousands upon thousands of differences between each impressionist (it would be a futile effort to even attempt to think of them all), and almost as many similarities.

Look at their body of work and their personal histories and you can rattle off a few hundred with no trouble.

It stars Meryl Streep and Alice Waters for sure..the others I am not sure about

Monet's Palate is a documentary film which examines the connection between fine art and fine cuisine in the perspective of Claude Monet. Here, you have Meryl Streep as a narrator who will take the viewers through the region of Normandy in France and Monet's Home and Gardens. This also include the greatest Chefs of the world such as Alice Waters, Daniel Boulud, Roger Verge, Anne Willan and Michel Richard who prepare the cuisine that Claude Monet adored. Moreover, there are interviews with Steve Wynn and Joachim Pissarro.

Between 1665 and 1672, Louis XIV, King of France, sent at his expense around 1000 young women to New France.

Fourteen-year-old Marie-Claude Chamois, one of the filles du roi, left France in 1670 for the New World (As portrayed Maude Richer-Lanciault.). These young women mostly came from the Paris area or the diocese of Rouen. They were poor, abandoned, and with no future in France. The King bestowed upon them a dowry of between 50 and 300 livres to settle them in the colony and thus increase its population. Marie-Claude Chamois was one of these women. This is her story:

Marie-Claude Chamois was the youngest of four children born to a well off Paris family. In 1669 she fled her home. A priest took her in and placed her in a shelter for abandoned women, poor children and the mentally ill.

"I was taken first to the Hospital de la Pitié in 1669 and then brought to the Salpetrière Hospital", she wrote. "I was baptized at Saint-Gervais de Paris, and raised by my mother until the age of 13 in the Faubourg St. Antoine", recounted Marie-Claude Chamois in remarks collected and published by the Chancellor of Aguesseau, "I had to flee to avoid the advances of my own brother who respected neither the Laws of Nature, Religion nor the Law."

A year later, her life was turned upside down once more. "I was chosen to join a number of others who had to cross to America, and I would have rather renounced my homeland and take a perilous voyage to the New World than beg my mother's help. I resigned myself to silence in an alien land, with neither friends, assistance nor parents condemned to a perpetual exile."

She arrived in Quebec in October 1670 and married François Frigon, a citizen of Batiscan. She was 14 years old. Marie-Claude Chamois and François Frigon had 7 children. They are the ancestors of every Frigon in North America.