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1. History of France

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   Following Waterloo, the Congress of Vienna (1815) restored the Bourbon monarchy under Louis XVIII, though the post-revolutionary landscape had fundamentally altered. The 19th century witnessed recurring cycles of revolution and reaction: the July Revolution (1830) overthrew Charles X, establishing the July Monarchy under Louis-Philippe; the February Revolution (1848) established the [Second Republic](/entr…

2. Impressionism

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   Urban and Leisure Scenes
   Artists documented the newly reorganized boulevards of Baron Haussmann, the lively cafés, the theaters, and the boating excursions on the Seine. Scenes of modern leisure—picnics, garden parties, and ballet rehearsals—became central. These paintings often depicted the rising bourgeoisie enjoying their newfound free time, suggesting an underlying societal contentment that perhaps did not entirely match the era's political realities.[^5]
   Landscape and Atmosphere

3. Paris

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   Paris is traditionally divided into twenty arrondissements, arranged in a clockwise spiral originating near the center on the Right Bank of the Seine. The river divides the city into the Rive Droite (Right Bank, associated historically with commerce and the aristocracy) and the Rive Gauche (Left Bank, traditionally associated with intellectual life and academia).
   The city's geometry is famously regularized due to the massive 19th-century renovations led by Baron Haussmann. These renovations created the wide boulevards that define modern Parisian streetscapes…