Personal Life
Clemenceau was a long-time friend and supporter of the impressionist painter Claude Monet. He was instrumental in convincing Monet to have a cataract operation in 1923, and for over a decade encouraged Monet to complete his donation to the French state of the "Nymphéas" (Water Lilies) paintings that are now on display in Paris' Musée de l'Orangerie in specially constructed oval galleries (which opened to the public in 1927).
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